• If an attorney is retained for clemency purposes, the attorney must submit the Attorney Affidavit called for in K.S.A. 22-3706.
 
• When complete, send all documents to the Prisoner Review Board at:

Kansas Department of Corrections
ATTN: Prisoner Review Board
714 SW Jackson, Suite 300
Topeka, Kansas 66603 

• The Prisoner Review Board will examine all pertinent records, reports and other available information. Should a personal interview with the applicant be required, the Board will notify the applicant. Upon full review, the Board will submit a report along with all information received to the Governor. The applicant will be notified when the Governor renders a decision via letter.
 

Juvenile Supervision Standards    

Chapter 3: Documentation, Reporting and Records

                                    Supervision Standards: Forms | Glossary | Return to Standards Listing 
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Megan Milner, Deputy Secretary of Juvenile and Adult Community-Based Services
E-mail
Phone: (785) 746-7456

Cris McKown, Parole Operations Manager
E-mail
Phone: (785) 746-7602

Jeff Butrick, Director of Community Based Services
E-mail
(785) 230-5259

Marie McNeal, Director of Grant and Quality Assurance
E-mail
(785) 230-6932

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Kansas Department of Corrections
Facility Management
714 S.W. Jackson St., Suite 300
Topeka, KS 66603 

Resident and family questions or concerns

E-mail: Facility Management Administration

Phone: (785) 746-7542

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• The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the death penalty laws in 40 states, including Kansas, in 1972. After several previous attempts, the 1994 Legislature enacted a death penalty law, which Governor Joan Finney allowed to become law without her signature. The statute took effect on July 1, 1994.
• Kansas statute established the death penalty by lethal injection as a sentencing option for offenders 18 years of age and older who are convicted of capital murder (K.S.A. 21-3439).
• A number of inmates have been convicted of capital murder but sentenced to life in prison (with a minimum term of 25 years to parole eligibility) instead of death.
• Kansas does not have a separate “death row.” Inmates sentenced to death are typically housed in El Dorado Correctional Facility (EDCF), along with other inmates who are in administrative segregation.
• Inmate Scott Cheever was sentenced to death for the murder of Greenwood County Sheriff Matt Samuels. Inmate Cheever is held in the Administrative Segregation Unit at Lansing Correctional Facility (LCF) due to the number of friends and family of Sheriff Samuels who are employed at EDCF.
• In the event that a female inmate is sentenced to death, she will be held at the Topeka Correctional Facility (TCF), the only facility for female inmates in Kansas.
• Inmates managed at EDCF or TCF will be transferred to the Lansing Correctional Facility within a week of the scheduled date of the execution.
• The average annual cost of incarceration at the El Dorado Correctional Facility for Fiscal Year 2016 was $25,596.
 

Secretary Jeff Zmuda was appointed by Governor Laura Kelly to lead the Kansas Department of Corrections in 2019. He was sworn in on February 5, 2020.

Prior to joining Governor Kelly’s cabinet, Jeff spent nearly 32 years in service to the Idaho Department of Corrections. More than half of that time was spent in leadership roles, as both the organization’s deputy director and chief of prisons. In these roles he coordinated with stakeholders across the state and played a key role in the operations for nine state-run facilities, including public safety initiatives, security protocols and practices, mental health care and treatment, education services and reentry programs. Jeff also has extensive experience addressing personnel and operations challenges across a correctional system.

Jeff is a firm believer that while offenders are serving their time in prison, the department and staff should be working hard to equip offenders with the resources and skills they need to be successful upon their reentry to their community. With that in mind, he has made improving reentry services and workforce readiness among inmates one of his top priorities.

Jeff and his wife Cheryl have been married for 40 years. They have three grown sons, David, Daniel and Andrew.

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Andrea Allen was named director of the KDOC's Northern Parole Region in August 2016.

Allen began her service with the State of Kansas in 1998 as a psychiatric security specialist for Kansas' Sexual Predator Treatment Program. Since that time, Allen has served at Topeka Correctional Facility as a corrections counselor, a reentry counselor, a mentoring coordinator, a contract substance abuse provider and most recently as a corrections manager II. In 2015, Allen completed the National Institute of Corrections Leadership Training Program. She also has served on several statewide committees including the Mental Health Task Force and the Corrections Care Coalition.

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