EPISODE · Sep 11, 2026 · 17 MIN
A mental health crisis in a Kansas jail shouldn’t have ended Charles Adair’s life
from Up To Date · host Steve Kraske
Charles Adair was in the midst of a mental health emergency when he turned himself into law enforcement for old traffic warrants. If sheriff’s deputies at the Wyandotte County, Kansas, jail had followed protocol for a mental health crisis, it might have prevented Adair’s death — which was ruled a homicide due to being restrained with a knee on his back.
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