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Families have been blocked from visiting inmates since March 1. A union president for prison staff believes an investigation justifying the tightened rules is dragging on as a way to circumvent the union’s contract.

Voters soundly rejected the question that would have extended a 3/8th-cent stadium sales tax for 40 years, allowing the Royals to fund their proposed downtown ballpark and the Chiefs to renovate Arrowhead Stadium. Plus: Families of the people incarcerated at Leavenworth are worried as visits and phone calls have been cut off.

Prison officials say the facility is in modified operations and has beefed up security to investigate a report of a firearm entering the facility. In letters, inmates say it’s more like a lockdown. They are stressed and rarely leave their cells.

Joe Biden granted clemency for the first time in his presidency Tuesday. He focused his attention commuting the sentences of people convicted of low-level, nonviolent drug offenses. Five are from Missouri.

Transgender inmates say they're put in danger by the Kansas prison system. Multiple inmates said they were targets of harassment and discrimination by fellow inmates, medical staff and corrections officers.

The COVID-19 case numbers started to rise at the prison just this month, and family members of people who are incarcerated there say they've been told not all staff members or inmates wear masks.

More than 100 inmates have sought to have their convictions vacated or their sentences reduced, claiming their Sixth Amendment rights were violated.

The lawsuits was sparked by disclosures that privileged attorney-client phone calls and meetings were recorded at the Leavenworth Detention Center.

Courtney argues he should be released early because he has numerous health problems that put him at risk of contracting COVID-19 and because he has made post-sentencing efforts to rehabilitate himself.

The decision to keep Courtney in prison would mark a reversal by the Bureau of Prisons to release Courtney to a halfway house today and then to home confinement in Trimble, Missouri.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Missouri received news of Robert Courtney’s early release from KCUR’s story on Monday.

This story was updated at 10 a.m. on Sept. 12, 2019, to reflect comments from the Bureau of Prisons.The federal Bureau of Prisons will provide opioid…