HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Kansas Court of Appeals upheld the conviction for a former bonding agent found “guilty” on all but three counts against him and sentenced to just over 21 years in prison.

The court found no error in the case against 68-year-old Dwight Jurgens, who was found guilty of two counts of aggravated human trafficking, two counts of attempting to commit aggravated human trafficking and two alternate counts of rape. The human trafficking and aggravated counts are charged due to his authority of controlling persons because of his work in a bonding business. He worked for TNT bonding at the time of the crimes.

He was convicted for bonding female prisoners from the Reno County Jail and then threatened to send them back to jail if they didn’t have sex with him. In at least one case, one of the victims was given drugs by Jurgens and then passed out, only to discover him on top of her.