Recent events, organized by category (below) or region/state (right), concerning the corrections industry in Kansas. Comments, suggestions and contributions (below) appreciated.
Parole is being considered for Charles F. Strauch and James F. Levier, each convicted of a homicide committed in Shawnee County. The Kansas Prisoner Review Board will hear public comments regarding the potential parole of any of 35 ......[more]
Gov. Sam Brownback contends the Juvenile Justice Authority will be better managed under the Department of Corrections and says money going toward administration of the JJA could instead be diverted into programs for offenders.
The Department of Corrections says in a release that the merger takes effect Monday......[more]
Commissioners Gwen Welshimer and Kelly Parks said Tuesday that they were grossed out and sickened by what they saw and ate during lunch at the jail Monday......[more]
Visitors about to tour the Shawnee County Jail commonly tell Brian Cole they expect to see dark hallways, iron bars and unsanitary conditions....[more]
Commissioners Gwen Welshimer and Kelly Parks said Tuesday that they were grossed out and sickened by what they saw and ate during lunch at the jail Monday......[more]
A federal judge dismissed as “frivolous” this week a lawsuit former Shawnee County Jail inmate Joseph Lee Jones filed last year asking for $1 million....[more]
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) -- The financially struggling Judge Riddel Boys Ranch in Sedgwick County will begin taking juveniles from other counties to increase its numbers even though it could close next year, Sedgwick County officials said....[more]
The Kansas secretary of corrections says the state’s prison system is at capacity and expected to add about 2,100 more inmates in the next decade....[more]
Gov. Sam Brownback contends the Juvenile Justice Authority will be better managed under the Department of Corrections and says money going toward administration of the JJA could instead be diverted into programs for offenders.
The Department of Corrections says in a release that the merger takes effect Monday......[more]
Curtis Leon Small, convicted in the 2012 fatal stabbing of his brother, was sentenced Friday to 10 years and two months in prison, the sentence prosecution and defense attorneys had recommended....[more]
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) - Michael Hill and Kim Cragg visit prisoners in the Reno County jail four days a week with a message of hope: They've been drug addicts. They've been locked up in jail. They've stopped using drugs. They've turned their ......[more]
A "serial shoplifter" from Topeka escaped Saturday afternoon from a minimum-security unit at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility, authorities said....[more]
LANSING, Kan. (AP) - A man who walked away from a minimum security job at Lansing Correctional Facility has been recaptured. The Kansas Department of Corrections reports 43-year-old Paul Cohagen was caught Thursday evening in Leavenworth ......[more]
LANSING, Kan. (AP) - State corrections officials are looking for a minimum security inmate who escaped from the Lansing Correctional Facility....[more]
MINNEAPOLIS, Kan. (AP) - A judge has sentenced an inmate to about 11 years for escaping from the Ottawa County jail. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt says in a release that 22-year-old Drew Edward Wade of Topeka was sentenced to 136 ......[more]
Associated Press, Thursday, March 21, 2013
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Republican Gov. Sam Brownback on Saturday showed his frustration with part of the state budget passed by the GOP-dominated Kansas Legislature by vetoing the entire Department of Corrections allotment for fiscal year ......[more]
