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| Former KJCC inmate's burns are a cautionary tale |
| By cjonline.com/news - Andy Marso |
| Published: 01/29/2013 |
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Quinton Sims is still haunted by the "click." The click was the sound of one of his fellow inmates at the Kansas Juvenile Correctional Complex turning on the industrial dishwasher he crawled into five years ago. The sound that told him that in a split-second he would be sprayed with scalding water. Sims sat outside that dishwasher minutes after that click and looked at the strips of flesh hanging off his arms. "I had my skin peeling so I could see my white meat," Sims, a dark-skinned black man, said when asked recently to recount the incident. Within hours, Sims was in a helicopter, unconscious and in critical condition, flying to The University of Kansas Medical Center's Burn Unit. Topeka Police Department detectives watched the chopper leave Stormont-Vail Regional Health Center. Then they went to KJCC, where they took pictures of pieces of Sims' skin lodged in the dishwasher. Their investigation ultimately determined Sims' burns were the result of a horrible accident and the incident was reduced to a few sentences in a Legislative Post Audit report released in July that outlined a raft of security problems at KJCC. Sims' story provides a haunting cautionary tale as the facility seeks a new balance of security and therapy under the Kansas Department of Corrections, which will absorb the Kansas Juvenile Justice Authority under an executive order signed by Gov. Sam Brownback last week. Read More. |
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