‘A punch in the gut’: Kansas Department of Corrections officials ignored warnings about dental lab instructor

The warden of the state-run women’s prison doesn’t know why Kansas Department of Corrections officials retained until December a dental lab instructor who sexually harassed an inmate in her facility two years ago.

Warden Shannon Meyer recommended firing the instructor, Tomas Co, following an internal investigation into problematic behavior reported by an inmate in January 2017. Co now faces seven charges of unlawful sexual relations with seven different women, including four who said they were abused after Co was allowed to stay.