Located one mile east of El Dorado on State Highway 54, EDCF is designed to house special management, maximum- and medium-custody residents.  Residents assigned to the Central Unit are usually repeat offenders with a history of violent behavior.

EDCF's philosophy is that residents are sentenced to incarceration as punishment, not for punishment. During a resident's incarceration, it is our responsibility to increase residents' abilities and motivations to practice responsible, pro-social, crime-free behavior through the provision of programs and services designed to assist with both risk reduction and reentry efforts.

EDCF houses the most dangerous and recalcitrant residents assigned to long-term involuntary segregation. Also, all male offenders sentenced to the custody of the Secretary of Corrections are received and processed through the EDCF Reception and Diagnostic Unit (RDU). In RDU, residents receive orientation and are assigned to a custody classification, appropriate programs and a permanent housing assignment. The management and activities at EDCF impact the entire corrections system due to the specialized nature of our operation. 

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.

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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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WCF is located in Cowley County in south central Kansas. The facility is located on the north side of the city of Winfield at the site of the former Winfield State Hospital and Training Center.

WCF serves a re-entry function designed to provide a smooth transition from an institutional setting to the community for residents expected to be paroled in the near future. 

Wichita Work Release Facility, in Wichita, provides selected residents the opportunity for community reintegration prior to their actual release from custody. Residents are housed in the highly structured residential setting and are expected to become gainfully employed on a full-time basis in the community.

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. 

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• PUBLIC COMMENT SESSION - The Kansas Prisoner Review Board holds a parole hearing with a resident one month prior to the resident's parole eligibility date. Initial parole eligibility dates are based upon a resident's sentence length. Subsequent parole eligibility dates are determined by the Board. The Board holds a public comment session one month prior to a resident's parole hearing. Public comment sessions provide victims and other interested parties with the opportunity to present their views regarding the possibility of a resident's parole. The dates, times and locations of the public comment sessions will be provided to victims by the Kansas Department of Corrections.

• RELEASE ON PAROLE STATUS - discretionary release of a resident granted by the Kansas Prisoner Review Board after the resident has served at least the minimum sentence required by law. The offender may be returned to incarceration for violating conditions of release.

• RELEASE ON CONDITIONAL RELEASE STATUS - mandatory supervised release established by law that usually occurs when the resident has served one half of the maximum sentence. The offender can be returned to incarceration for violating conditions of release.

• RELEASE ON POST-RELEASE STATUS - mandatory supervised release of a resident who has served the incarceration portion of the sentence under provisions of the Sentencing Guidelines Act or whose sentence was converted to a guidelines sentence. The offender can be returned to incarceration for violating conditions of release.

• EXPIRATION OF SENTENCE - release occurring when a resident has served to the maximum sentence date.

• DEATH - notification of the death of a resident.

• ESCAPE - an unauthorized absence by a resident from the correctional facility to which the resident is assigned. Notice of an escape will be provided to victims as soon as possible.

• ASSIGNMENT TO A WORK RELEASE PROGRAM - a resident classified as minimum custody may be assigned to a work release program. The resident is employed in the community but must return to the facility during non-working hours.

• ELIGIBILITY FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE WORK ASSIGNMENT - a resident classified as minimum custody may be assigned to supervised work crews outside the security perimeter of the facility.

• APPLICATION FOR CLEMENCY - request from a resident  for sentence modification requiring approval of the Governor.

You will need to provide your name and address to the Kansas Department of Corrections and the District/County Attorney's Office, and update that information when your name or address changes.

 For additional information, you may view our brochure, also available (En Espanol).

E-mail
Phone: (785) 877-3389
Fax: (785) 877-6604
11130 Road E4
Norton, KS 67654-0546

NCF Satellite Unit
NCF - East Unit
Phone: (785) 425-6745
Fax: (785) 877-6760
1210 S. Cedar St.
Stockton, KS 67669

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