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Libby Snider — 2014-03-17T19:42:20Z

Distribution #583: IMPPs 10-134, 14-120, 14-146

Mentoring4Success (M4S)

Nancy Burghart — 2014-02-14T22:30:00Z

Mentoring Adult Offenders in Kansas

Mentoring is a key component to reduce recidivism in Kansas.

This community-based statewide initiative delivers mentoring services to help offenders safely and successfully return to communities. Nearly 4,700 offenders leave prison each year and many need help finding employment/housing, getting connected to services/treatment and reuniting safely with neighborhoods/families. Mentors support the work of correctional case workers and service/treatment providers by assisting offenders in reaching their reentry plan goals. Mentors are also instrumental in helping offenders establish a life of pro-social activities and meaningful engagement within their communities.

Our goal is to ensure that every offender leaving prison has the opportunity to work with a mentor. Guided by community service organizations working closely with the Department of Corrections, mentors are trained and matched to offenders six to 12 months prior to an offender's release from prison. Services are also continually monitored and evaluated to ensure the most effective mentoring practices are used.

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History

Nancy Burghart — 2014-02-07T01:40:00Z

The Topeka Juvenile Correctional Facility was established in 1879 as the State Reform School and as the state's first institution for juvenile rehabilitation in the state. In 1901, the school was renamed the State Industrial School for Boys. In 1971, younger offenders who had been adjudicated delinquent or miscreant were transferred to the Atchison facility. In 1974, the name of the institution was changed to the Youth Center at Topeka. The former name, Topeka Juvenile Correctional Facility, was established during the 1997 Legislative Session. On July 1, 1997, responsibility for the juvenile correctional facilities in Kansas was transferred from the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services to the Juvenile Justice Authority. In the spring of 2005 operations of Topeka Juvenile Correctional Facility and the new Kansas Juvenile Correctional Complex were merged under the Kansas Juvenile Correctional Complex name.

Overview | Youth Handbook (Manual Para La Juventud) | Parent Handbook (Manual Para Los Padres) | Juvenile Offender Telephone Information

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Programs

Nancy Burghart — 2014-02-07T01:40:00Z

Correctional counselors provide individual counseling and evidence-based programming. Offenders participate in such programs as Thinking for a Change, Aggression Replacement Training (ART), Skill Streaming and Motivation to Change. A certified Offender Workforce Development Specialist also assists in preparing juveniles for re-entry into the community.

Through the chaplain department, female offenders also participated in the Girls Scouts and KAIROS, a prison ministry program.

Overview | Youth Handbook (Manual Para La Juventud) | Parent Handbook (Manual Para Los Padres) | Juvenile Offender Telephone Information

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Overview

Nancy Burghart — 2014-02-07T01:40:00Z

Located on approximately 60 acres in northwest Topeka, the Kansas Juvenile Correctional Complex (KJCC) is a medium- and maximum-security facility for male and female juveniles.

Residents are normally adjudicated of offenses that would be considered a felony if committed by an adult and are traditionally the state’s most violent juvenile offenders. Placement is determined by a matrix, which was implemented on July 1, 1999. The matrix was designed to place serious and violent offenders in a juvenile correctional facility and nonviolent offenders in community-based programs.

KJCC also houses the reception and diagnostic unit (RDU) where all male and female offenders enter the juvenile correctional facility system. A 21-day assessment is undertaken operates a 60-bed to determine an appropriate treatment program.

The KJCC facility is divided into an east campus for male residents and a west campus for female residents. The complex is composed of five areas: the diagnostic/classification area, maximum and medium-security housing for male residents, secure female housing in the stand-alone Q/R/S/T building on the east campus, central programs areas and administrative/support areas. All areas are located within a secure perimeter fence, with the exception of administration and some general service areas. The facility is currently funded to operate 235 beds.

Overview | Youth Handbook (Manual Para La Juventud) | Parent Handbook (Manual Para Los Padres) | Juvenile Offender Telephone Information

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KJCC

Nancy Burghart — 2014-02-07T01:40:00Z

Kansas Juvenile Correctional Complex

(KJCC)

The Kansas Department of Corrections oversees the operations of KJCC in Topeka. Female offenders are housed at the KJCC-West facility while male offenders are housed at the KJCC-East Facility.

E-mail
Phone: (785) 354-9800
Fax: (785) 354-9878
1430 N.W. 25th St.
Topeka, KS 66618-1499

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KJCC

cherylca — 2014-02-07T01:36:51Z

Kansas Juvenile Correctional Complex

History

cherylca — 2014-01-27T20:55:00Z

History
1976	Wichita Work Release began operation at North Fairmont as a co-correctional program in January 1976, with an initial capacity of 22 inmates.
1978	The program relocated to north Market and expanded its population capacity to 55 inmates.
1984	Population capacity increased to 76 inmates.
1988	Population capacity increased to 100 inmates.
1989	The program's capacity increased to 182 upon the KDOC's termination of its community residential contract with VIP, Inc. Those inmates from the VIP, Inc. contract were absorbed into WWRF in two buildings on north Market, the WWRF building and another leased by the KDOC to accommodate the influx.
1990	In November, the facility moved to its current location at Emporia and Waterman streets. Population capacity was 198 inmates: 188 male and 10 female.
1996	The administrations of Wichita Work Release Facility and Winfield Correctional Facility were combined, making WWRF a satellite unit of WCF.
2002	The women's work release program was transferred to Topeka. As a result, the capacity was expanded by 52 beds, resulting in a total capacity of 250 inmates.

Overview | Visitor Information | History | Warden
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Overview

Nancy Burghart — 2014-01-27T20:55:00Z

The Wichita Work Release Facility (WWRF), a satellite unit of the Winfield Correctional Facility, is an all-male, minimum-custody state prison located in Wichita in south-central Kansas. The capacity is 250 minimum-custody male residents. The purpose of the work release program is to prepare selected residents for release and to assist them in making a successful transition from the institutional environment back into free society. Work release offers a unique opportunity to realize correctional objectives while permitting the participants to leave confinement and work in the community under close supervision and structure.

Participating residents must maintain full-time employment in the community. From their wages, the residents must pay a room and board fee, transportation expenses, court costs, restitution, dependent support and other outstanding debts. They also must accumulate savings prior to release from custody. At the same time, participants are responsible for their own medical and dental expenses and maintenance of their room as well as general use areas of the facility.

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Senate 1 23 2014

cherylca — 2014-01-23T20:47:00Z

Overview of the Kansas Department of Corrections to:Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs: Presented by Secretary Ray Roberts (January 23, 2014)

Warden

cherylca — 2014-01-22T21:15:00Z

Warden Paul Snyder

Paul Snyder was named warden for Winfield Correctional Facility in November 2018 after having served as warden at El Dorado Correctional Facility (EDCF) since April 2018.

Snyder, who previously served as deputy warden at Winfield Correctional Facility, began his career with the KDOC in 1993 as a corrections officer at EDCF. Snyder, who also worked at Ellsworth Correctional Facility, rose steadily through the ranks to become a corrections supervisor, a unit team manager and then deputy warden in 2010. He first served as EDCF’s deputy warden of programs before transitioning into the position of deputy warden of support services. He then was named the deputy warden at the Wichita Work Release Facility before becoming the deputy warden at Winfield Correctional Facility in 2016.

Snyder earned his associate’s degree in administrative justice from Butler County Community College and a bachelor’s degree in human resources and organizational leadership from Rasmussen College.

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Warden

cherylca — 2014-01-22T21:15:00Z

Warden Paul Snyder

Paul Snyder was named warden for Winfield Correctional Facility in November 2018 after having served as warden at El Dorado Correctional Facility (EDCF) since April 2018.

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Programs

cherylca — 2014-01-21T22:15:00Z

As with other facilities under the management of the Secretary of Corrections, education, health services and food services are provided through contracts with private vendors.

Programs

Pre-Release Vocational (Aramark) GED

Correctional Industries

Aramark.................................. 6 slots
Pioneer Balloon....................... 12 slots

Community Service Work

Inmates at Winfield Correctional Facility provide thousands of hours of community service work each year to non-profit entities after certification that the service work will not displace community-available jobs. This program provides labor for those approved agencies and provides inmates with valuable job skills and work ethics that they can utilize upon release. Long-term community service work includes:

Butler County
City of Arkansas City
City of El Dorado
City of Wichita
City of Winfield
Cowley County Humane Society
Lion’s Club Sight Project
Kansas Department of Transportation
Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
Strother Field
USD 465

Other Programs

Inmates also can participate in Reaching Out from Within, al self-help program for inmates who are committed to change and to giving back to the community.

Reaching Out From Within is a Kansas City-based non-profit organization founded in 1982 by violence prevention advocate and author SuEllen Fried. The program is dedicated to providing programs that prevent violence in our community. By breaking the cycle of violence, participants become contributing members of their families and society. Incarcerated men and women lead meetings using a curriculum written by offenders that teaches life skills and encourages them to make positive changes in their lives.

The WCF program began in 1994. Meetings, which are open to every inmate in the facility, are held two nights each week. During the meetings, inmates work with various materials and reference books that help in their quest to learn new ways to meet life's challenges and change their behavior. Select program participants, who have met special criteria, routinely speak to students and other groups in their community about choices and consequences.

Giving back to society in a meaningful way is one of the core beliefs of the program. The group gives back to society by supporting charities.

For more information, see the Reaching Out From Within website at http://www.rofw.org.

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History

cherylca — 2014-01-21T22:10:00Z

History
1984	Winfield Pre-Release Center opened on the grounds of the Winfield State Hospital, providing primarily pre-release programming services. The population capacity was 141 inmates.
1989	Having expanded both in terms of size and facility mission, the name of the facility was changed to Winfield Correctional Facility. The population capacity was 290 inmates.
1996	Winfield State Hospital closed. As a result, Winfield Correctional Facility absorbed many buildings and the infrastructure and support units from the hospital. During the transition, an additional dorm was added, increasing the capacity to 522 inmates. In September, the administrations of Winfield Correctional Facility and Wichita Work Release Facility were combined.
1998	A therapeutic community substance abuse treatment program was implemented.
2000	InnerChange Freedom Initiative (IFI), a 12-18 month, values-based pre-release program, began operation in March with the capacity to serve 158 inmates.
2002	In June, IFI was transferred from Winfield to Ellsworth Correctional Facility.
2003	The therapeutic community program was closed effective January 31, 2003.
2004	The population capacity was increased to 556 inmates.
2007	Due to renovations, the capacity decreased to 554 inmates.
2009	Due to budget constraints, B Unit was closed in early 2009, reducing the capacity to 378. It was re-opened in June 2009, bringing the capacity back to 554 inmates.
2010	Pioneer Balloon opened a private industry onsite, employing up to 12 inmates at minimum wage jobs.
2011	WCF contracts with the Cowley County Jail to house up to 50 inmates in response to population increases within the KDOC.
2013	The Cowley County Jail contract ended.

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WCF

David — 2014-01-21T22:10:26Z

Winfield Correctional Facility