Another contraband arrest at a Kansas prison leads to additional time behind bars for an inmate.

Carlos Jackson, 34, an inmate at the Lansing Correctional Facility, was sentenced Wednesday to 40 more months with the Department of Corrections.

According to Leavenworth County Attorney Todd Thompson, on September 12, 2014, staff at the prison searched Jackson’s cell and his person because they heard that Jackson had contraband. When doing a strip search, Jackson pulled out a cell phone from his boxer shorts. Further, the staff found a and a cell phone charger and a homemade knife in the pocket of his jeans that hung up in the cell . All these things are illegal for inmates to possess while incarcerated.

On December 14, 2015 a jury found Jackson guilty of possessing the contraband.

During sentencing, the defense attorney, Clinton Lee, argued for a downward departure for his client from the standard sentence of 43 months as required by the Kansas Sentencing Guidelines. The State, argued by County Attorney Todd Thompson, asked for the standard sentence. Judge Gunnar Sundby denied the departure, but instead granted a mitigated sentence as allowed by the sentencing guidelines to 40 months saying this was due to the financial problems the State of Kansas is having.

Mr. Jackson was convicted of a murder in Topeka in 2003 as a juvenile, and then later convicted of three aggravated batteries as an adult from Douglas County.