Tag: Robert Knott

It was sick enough that the federal Bureau of Prisons let Robert Knott degenerate so far that he killed himself in its ADX supermax...

It was sick enough that the federal Bureau of Prisons let Robert Knott degenerate to the point that he killed himself in its ADX...

Officials kept the lifeless body shackled for hours even when they moved it to the hospital in Cañon City and waited for the coroner to officially declare it dead, even after the coroner's repeat requests to just please remove the chains.

It’s Ho-Chunk custom to honor their dead with a four-day, four-night ceremony. But there was no such service for Robert Knott, who returned to his Winnebago tribe 18 days too late.

It’s distressing enough that a 29-year-old prisoner at the federal supermax in Florence has been spending his days face against a wall, making sculptures of his feces and smearing it on his body and his hair.

As weeks go, the first one of September was especially tough for Fremont County Coroner Carlette Brocious.