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Kansas Department of Corrections addendum to the Post Audit Report - Department of Corrections: Reviewing Allegations of Staff Misconduct (Jan 2010)

David Cook — 2011-08-17T16:53:40Z

(Posted January 29, 2010)

Kansas Department of Corrections addendum to the Post Audit Report - Department of Corrections: Reviewing Allegations of Staff Misconduct (Jan 2010)

David Cook — 2011-08-17T16:53:25Z

(Posted January 29, 2010)

Kansas Department of Corrections

cherylca — 2019-05-03T19:30:00Z

Among the nearly 300 names on the Kansas Law Enforcement Memorial, the names of eight Kansas Department of Corrections officers are included.
Mark Avery	Corrections Officer, Lansing Correctional Facility	Corrections Officers Mark Avery and Michael Bidatsch were on routine duty supervising the Lansing Correctional Facility recreation hall on May 22, 1993 when they were attacked and beaten with bar bell plates and a stocking cap stuffed with pool balls. Officer Avery died the next day at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Robert D. Hurd	Corrections Officer, Kansas State Penitentiary (now Lansing Correctional Facility)	On October 11, 1981, Corrections Officer Hurd died after being stabbed by an inmate who was angered by a disciplinary report that Officer Hurd was going to file.
Donald R. Martin	Corrections Officer, Lansing Correctional Facility	On August 19, 1978, Corrections Officer Martin was killed when he was attacked and beaten by an inmate who was holding a female hostage during an escape attempt.
Paul J. Weber	Parole Officer, Kansas City Parole Office	On October 19, 1976, Parole Officer Weber was killed after he went to the home of a parolee whose mother had requested assistance in removing her son from her residence. As Officer Weber followed the parolee into the kitchen, the man seized a butcher knife and stabbed Officer Weber. The parolee was convicted of assault on a law enforcement officer and first-degree murder
Henry N. Kenaga	Corrections Officer, Kansas State Penitentiary (now Lansing Correctional Facility)	On June 20, 1954, Corrections Officer Kenaga was killed after responding to a situation in which inmates, armed with guns and knives, had rushed the visiting room and seized at least six hostages. The inmates were crossing the prison yard when they encountered Officer Kenaga who then attempted to prevent their escape. Officer Kenaga was fatally shot. After a brief exchange of gunfire and a call for additional enforcement officers, the inmates were surrounded and returned to their cells. They were charged with first-degree murder.
Lee White	Kansas State Industrial Reformatory (now Hutchinson Correctional Facility)	On July 25, 1928, Officer White was supervising five inmates who were working on the new grandstands at the state fairgrounds. Officer White was struck from behind and knocked unconscious by two inmates, Glenn Bellfield and Jake Schell. The two inmates escaped and shot a young girl while commandeering her car. White was treated by a local physician and then joined the search for the escaped inmates. White was a passenger in a vehicle with other officers during the search on July 26, 1928 when the vehicle failed to negotiate a turn and flipped. Officer White, who landed under the vehicle as it came rest, died at the scene. The others suffered minor injuries. After a cross-country manhunt the two escapees were captured following a shootout in Roswell, New Mexico on July 29, 1928.
David W. Burns	Corrections Officer, Kansas State Penitentiary (now Lansing Correctional Facility)	On December 15, 1923, Officer Burns died after being shot four times by an escaped inmate. Officer Burns had traveled to Texarkana, Texas and was on a train returning with two escapees. While traveling through Alicia, Arkansas, one of the inmates shot Officer Burns four times. Before his death, Officer Burns told the doctor tending to his wounds that he was shot with a revolver believed to have been smuggled to the escapees while at the Texarkana train depot. One escapee was later caught in Arkansas. The second escapee, who had shot Officer Burns, was located following his arrest for a robbery in Meridian, Mississippi six months after Officer Burns’ death.
William H. Owens	Corrections Officer, Kansas State Penitentiary (now Lansing Correctional Facility)	On October 5, 1905, Officer Owens died from injuries suffered during an escape that occurred the day before his death. Officer Owens had taken an inmate to conduct survey work outside the penitentiary. The inmate had delivered a severe blow to Officer Owen's solar plexus that resulted in internal bleeding and a heart attack. The inmate was quickly captured and charged with felonious assault and murder.

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June 2007 Newsletter

David Cook — 2011-08-17T16:53:55Z

Visit to the Wichita Eagle, employee honors, Army MOU, Immigration IMPP, new website

July 2007 Newsletter

David Cook — 2011-08-17T16:53:55Z

KDOC's Annual Report receives makeover, Leadership Development Academy graduates, new wardens appointed, Wichita Eagle representative tours new parole services building, offender workforce certification, facility and field news, sex offender treatment provider contract awarded.

July

Hope.Burns — 2016-07-28T21:15:00Z

JIAS-04-103

cherylca — 2014-01-16T16:55:00Z

JIAS-04-103

January 2008 Newsletter

David Cook — 2011-08-17T16:53:58Z

KDOC inmate telephone rates decreasing, HCF Jaycees raise funds for National Guard, Aerostructures graduation, Victim Services recognition, correctional facility physical plant security improvements

January 2007 Newsletter

David Cook — 2011-08-17T16:53:56Z

Risk reduction policy conference, Leadership Development Academy, Sex Offender Policy Board report

January

Hope.Burns — 2016-03-18T17:20:00Z

Inmate Phone Contract

David Cook — 2009-02-02T21:41:14Z

The Kansas Department of Corrections has entered into a contract with Embarq™ Payphone Services Inc., a unit of Embarq Corp. of Overland Park, to provide telephone services for inmate calling at Kansas correctional facilities for significantly reduced rates.

Inmate Phone Contract

David Cook — 2011-08-17T16:53:31Z

Incentive Levels

cherylca — 2014-01-08T22:10:00Z

The KDOC’s graduated incentive level system requires that inmates earn privileges in areas which include personal property, visitation, canteen expenditures and eligibility for incentive pay.

Inmates progress through the four-level system by complying with KDOC rules and regulations, participating in programs and practicing pro-social behavior. Once earned, privileges may be lost for non-compliance as an inmate’s behavior determines which incentive levels he/she can earn while incarcerated. Level three is the highest incentive level possible. All inmates enter the Reception and Diagnostic Unit at Intake Level.

Inmate Privileges and Incentive Level System: Attachment A, IMPP 11-101

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House 1 14 2015

cherylca — 2015-01-14T17:05:00Z

Overview of the Kansas Department of Corrections to House Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice

History

cherylca — 2013-12-31T17:40:00Z

History (LCF)
1859	Kansas Legislature passed authorized the construction of the Kansas State Penitentiary (KCP)
1861	On November 18, a tract of 40 acres on Seven Mile Creek was purchased for $600 from Almira Budlong.
1862	John P. Mitchell served as KSP's first warden.
1863	Three directors, William Dunlap, John Wilson and S.S. Ludlum, were appointed to oversee KSP. After touring several prisons in eastern states, the group decided to model the KSP after a prison in Joliet, Illinois.
1864	Construction, accomplished using prison labor, began on the north wing near the site of what was known as the Oklahoma Jail.
1867	Following several delays due to the Civil War, the main building was completed.
1868	With the completion of the north wing, KSP began accepting prisoners in July.
1872	The dining hall was completed.
1875	A guard force of 26 men watched over 379 prisoners including 30 federal inmates. The prison also housed inmates from Oklahoma until 1909.
	Prisoners were governed by what was known as the "silent system," meaning no inmates were allowed to converse with one another under any circumstances.
1881	A need to keep inmates occupied caused the state to sink a coal shaft that would supply KSP and all other state institutions. The need to transport the coal brought in the railroads and soon the area around the prison became a railway crossroads. Houses and businesses were erected giving way for the area to be called the Town of Progress. The prison also began to manufacture twine. The coal mine and twine operations closed in 1947 due to high operating costs and low demand.
1885	Inmates began work on the prison farm. Aside from raising crops, inmates also oversaw a dairy herd and poultry and hog farm. By 1961, the prison farm covered 2,000 acres. By 1975, farm operations were discontinued but later resumed on a reduced basis.
1896	KSP temporarily stopped admitting prisoners due to widespread alarm over the spread of small pox in Kansas.
1911	KSP opened a "tinker shop" where visitors could purchase craft items including furniture made by inmates. The shop also housed a broom manufacturing operation.
1917	The Kansas Correctional Institute - Lansing for Women (KCIL) was established as a satellite unit of KSP. The name would become the Kansas Correctional Institute at Lansing in 1983.
1985	A medium-security unit was constructed adjacent to the original wall of the maximum-security compound. This complex is now designated as the Central Unit.
1987	The Osawatomie Correctional Facility was established in September as an 80-bed minimum-security facility on the grounds of the Osawatomie State Hospital. This facility would become a a satellite unit of Lansing Correctional Facility in May of 1990.
1988	The minimum- and medium-custody female inmates were transferred from the Kansas Correctional Institute at Lansing to the Topeka Correctional Facility in Topeka. The maximum-custody female inmates would be transferred to Topeka in 1995. The former KCIL site is now designated as the East Unit and is a minimum-custody facility for male inmates.
1990	The administration of KSP and the Kansas Correctional Institute at Lansing were consolidated to form the Lansing Correctional Facility (LCF).
1991	LCF was awarded accreditation by the American Correctional Association.
1993	LCF became the oldest adult correctional facility to receive a perfect score in an American Correctional Association accreditation audit. LCF also duplicated its perfect score in a 1996 audit.
2009	LCF's satellite unit at Osawatomie was closed.