Killed by the State? Prisoner in Jackson County Detention Center Found Dead Hours After Entry

By Ryan S. ● Justice, Kansas City ● October 16, 2021

KANSAS CITY, MO. — A 63 year-old man was found dead just hours after entering the Jackson County Detention Center on Friday.

According to Jackson County Sheriff Darryl Forté, the prisoner entered the facility around noon on Friday, October 15th.

In a tweet following the tragic death, Forté said the following;

“The sheriff’s office is investigating death of an inmate at the JCDC. Inmate entered the detention center around noon today. Inmate was transported to hospital shortly thereafter where he died several hours later. Will update soon.”

Regardless of the cause of death, this tragic event makes clear that the brutal and hellish mass caging facility known as the JCDC is no place for any human to live, let alone to be enslaved.

This is a developing story.

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Ryan S.

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Ryan has a diverse background including working at one of the nation’s most esteemed Black think tanks, one of Chicago’s top B2B Tech PR agencies, a top 3 global PR firm, and founding Kansas City’s largest Black-led direct action group during the 2020 uprisings. During Ryan’s professional career he’s consulted brands such as Facebook, Samsung, Amazon and Google.

He is a recipient of the Civil and Human Rights Award recognized by the Urban League of Kansas City, Southern Christian Leadership Conference and NAACP. He has also engaged in a number of public talks as a prison industrial complex Abolitionist thinker including on; NPR, PBS, a Kansas City Art Institute Lecture, a lecture at University of the Arts London, the Annual International Symposium (Digital Ethics for a Sustainable Society), as well as the T-Mobile Speaker Series.

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Ryan S.

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