For additional information please contact Steve Schneider, Public Information Officer

                                                    Hutchinson Correctional Facility

                                                              Hutchinson, Kansas

                                                                 620-728-3335

                                                                 620-728-3338

Warden Sam Cline of the Hutchinson Correctional Facility has announced that visitation at the prison’s maximum security Central Unit has been cancelled for this weekend, December 19th and 20^th, due to the number of cases of influenza like illnesses among the inmate population.

In addition, transfers of inmates into and out of the Hutchinson Correctional Facility will be cancelled through next week. All volunteer activities at the prison’s Central Unit are cancelled until further notice. The employee holiday tours originally scheduled for Friday, December 18, 2009 are also cancelled.

These changes in visitation and volunteer programs do not affect the medium custody East Unit or the minimum custody South Unit of the Hutchinson Correctional Facility. These schedule changes are being made in compliance with the infectious disease mitigation response plan which has been developed by the Kansas Department of Corrections in recent months. The situation at the facility will be re-evaluated by the middle of next week to determine if continued changes to operations are warranted.

Residents are permitted telephone privileges to make collect/pre-paid calls. Residents are not permitted to receive telephone calls. Every new number that a resident requests be added to the resident’s approved call list must be verified and activated before the resident is allowed to call. 

Residents have access to coinless telephones at various times throughout the day during yard periods. Each living unit also has specified periods when residents are allowed to make phone calls during the evening hours. 

Please note that Resident telephone calls, except for attorney calls, may be subject to monitoring and recording in accordance with KAR 44-2-102 (c). 

The provider for resident telephone service is ICS Corrections, Inc.. The customer service phone number for called parties to establish a pre-paid account is1-888-506-8407 or accounts may be set up online at no cost at www.icsolutions.com . Residents cannot call cell phones unless a prepaid account is established with the phone company. This may be done by the family by calling 1-888-506-8407

For more information, please review the Inmate Telephone Customer Service Information sheet. 

In the event of a verifiable emergency such as a serious illness or death in the family, you may call the facility. During regular business hours, you will be forwarded to the resident counselor’s office where you can relay the emergency message, and the counselor will speak with the resident. After hours or on weekends and holidays, verified emergencies will be passed on to the resident at the earliest possible time.

Chain dialing, 3-way calling, call forwarding, and/or dialing extra digits is not permitted.

If you need additional information on resident telephone use, please see Internal Management Policy and Procedure (IMPP) 10-111 Programs and Services: Inmate Access to Facility and Coinless Telephones.