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Bombshell in Leavenworth Tapings Case: 1,300 Public Defender Calls Recorded over Two Years

A civil lawsuit claims attorney-client meetings were monitored and recorded at the Leavenworth Detention Center.  (Photo by J. Schafer)
A civil lawsuit claims attorney-client meetings were monitored and recorded at the Leavenworth Detention Center. (Photo by J. Schafer)

There's been an extraordinary new disclosure in the ongoing controversy over recorded attorney-client calls at the pretrial detention facility in Leavenworth. As Dan Margolies reports for the Kansas News Service, many more such calls were recorded than previously reported. 


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