TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas inmate convicted of attempted murder for assaulting a corrections officer in 2019 has been sentenced to more than 54 years in prison for the attack.
Ray Miles, 58, of Topeka, was convicted in August of attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery and battery against a corrections officer. The Shawnee County District Attorney’s Office said Miles was sentenced Monday to 653 months in prison.
Prosecutors said Miles attacked Shawnee County corrections officer Kourtney Flynn on July 31, 2019, while Flynn was trying to retrieve a cordless phone from his cell. A court affidavit said Miles pushed Flynn to an isolated area of the jail and tried to stab her several times with a pen before other workers restrained him.
Flynn suffered several injuries, including a head injury.
At the time of the attack, Miles was in the jail to serve the remaining year of his sentences for attacking several employees of Topeka television station WIBW in 2012. In that attack, Miles broke into the station and assaulted the employees because they refused to report on a problem he was having with the Department of Veterans Affairs. He stabbed, kicked, bit and punched the employees before they were able to subdue him.