Convicted multiple murderer Carr caught possessing sexually explicit material
By Tim Hrenchir
The Topeka Capital-Journal
State records show convicted multiple murderer Reginald D. Carr Jr., who faces a death sentence and spends 23 hours a day in his prison cell, was caught recently possessing sexually explicit material.
Kansas Department of Corrections records posted online show that Carr, 36, was the subject of a disciplinary report filed March 17 for the possession of sexually explicit material by a convicted sex offender.
Corrections spokesman Jeremy Barclay didn’t have details Monday of the violation. He said the corrections department is “very restrictive” in classifying material as being sexually explicit.
The disciplinary report was the first since November 2009 for Carr, an inmate at El Dorado Correctional Facility.
Carr and his brother, Jonathan Carr, were sentenced to death by lethal injection in 2002 on capital murder convictions linked to a 2000 case in which they invaded a Wichita home and subjected the three young men and two young women inside to sexual abuse. The Carrs then kidnapped them, took them to ATMs and robbed them. The Carrs next took the five people to a soccer field, where they fatally shot four execution-style and ran them over with a pickup truck. One victim, a woman, also was shot and run over but survived.
The Carrs also were convicted of first-degree murder in the death of a woman shot four days before the other killings. Each has convictions for crimes that include murders and 23 sexual assaults.
Barclay said the Carr brothers are in administrative segregation at the El Dorado facility, meaning they are kept in their cells 23 hours a day and only get out to exercise for one hour in a secure pen.
Appeals filed on behalf of the brothers were heard in December by the Kansas Supreme Court. Lisa Taylor, spokeswoman for that court, said Monday it had yet to rule on the appeals.
Reginald Carr also made news when the Associated Press in January 2007 reported he had taken out a personal ad on a website run by the Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty. A copy of the article is at http://bit.ly/QAVbfL.
The AP reported that although Kansas prison inmates aren’t allowed to use personal funds to solicit mail through websites, they often have people outside prison post the information for them, which Carr did. The AP reported that while most sexually explicit photos mailed to inmates are confiscated in the mailroom, they sometimes slip through, which led to Carr’s receiving a disciplinary report in 2005 for having sexually explicit material.
State corrections records show Reginald Carr has 11 disciplinary violations and Jonathan Carr has 23 since they entered the state’s prison system in November 2002. Reginald Carr also had violations during a previous prison term.
Corrections department records show Jonathan Carr, 34, was disciplined for possessing sexually explicit material one time each in 2008, 2012 and 2013. His most recent disciplinary report, issued April 6, involved violating inmate activity limitations.
The Carrs are among eight Kansas prison inmates facing death sentences. The others are:
■ Gary Kleypas, 58, convicted in the 1996 murder and sexual assault of a woman in Pittsburg. Corrections department records show Kleypas has four disciplinary reports since entering the prison system in 1998, with the most recent being for showing insubordination or disrespect to an officer in 2013.
■ John E. Robinson Sr., 70, convicted of the murders of two women in 2000 and of the murder of a woman who disappeared in 1985 and was never found, all in Johnson County. Robinson has no disciplinary reports since entering the system in 2003.
■ Douglas Belt, 52, convicted in the 2002 murder and sexual assault of a woman in west Wichita. Belt has 11 disciplinary reports since re-entering the system in 2004, with the most recent being for showing insubordination or disrespect to an officer in 2013.
■ Sidney Gleason, 34, convicted in the 2004 murders of two people in Barton County. Gleason has no disciplinary reports since re-entering the system in 2006.
■ Justin Thurber, 31, convicted in the 2007 murder and sexual assault of a woman in Cowley County. Thurber has no disciplinary reports since entering the system in 2009.
■ James Kraig Kahler, 51, convicted in the 2009 Osage County killings of his former wife, their two daughters and his wife’s grandmother. Kahler has two disciplinary reports since entering the system in 2011, with the most recent being for misuse of state property in 2012.
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