HUTCHINSON– A Kansas inmate at the El Dorado Correctional Facility has been charged in Reno County with two counts of battery of a corrections officer.

Richard Powell, 45, is alleged to have battered two prison officers at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility on Sept. 11.

On the same day, a fire was reported in Central Unit, C-cell house.

The two incidents are not connected, according to Assistant District Attorney Tom Stanton.

With the charges filed on Friday, his case will move to a waiver-status docket next month.

Powell is serving time for intentional premeditated murder, criminal possession of a firearm, traffic in contraband, voluntary manslaughter and aggravated assault. These crimes occurred in Wyandotte County in 1992 and 1998.