(Updated April 7, 2021)
Visitors must be approved through the KDOC application process and create an account on www.ICSolutions.com; and be approved on that site as well. Once approved, visits can be scheduled through the visitation scheduler at www.ICSolutions.com for video visit and in person visitation. All visitors including minors must be approved through ICSolutions and be scheduled for the visit date. Visitors that arrive that have not been scheduled on www.ICSolutions.com will be denied. Visitation must be scheduled 72 hours in advance for WCF and no sooner than three weeks prior to the visit day.
WCF Residents are scheduled visitation based on incentive level and last name. Please be aware of the days that residents are allowed to visit based on these factors. Residents will be able to tell you their incentive level. Staff cannot release this information to the public. If a visit is scheduled for a resident on a day he is not allowed to visit, the visit will be cancelled by staff.
Visit days are as follows:
Visitation times for each day are as follows:
Residents may only have one visit scheduled per weekend; within the time blocks established above. There is a cap of 25 residents visiting per 2-hour time block. Each resident can have a maximum of two visitors attend the visit (two adult visitors or one adult and one minor)
Visitors are responsible for scheduling visitation based on the dates/times provided and the resident’s incentive level. Visits scheduled on a date not permitted for that resident will be cancelled by staff in advance. Visitors must check in within the first hour of the time block, or the visitor will be denied. All visitors 2 years of age and older must wear a mask. If you arrive without a mask, you will be allowed to depart to get a mask as long as you are checked back in during the first hour of the visitation block.
There is no food allowed at this time and the vending machines will not be in use.
All visits will be non-contact. No embracing, hugging, kissing, etc. will be permitted.
Visitors/Residents can choose to visit inside or outside.
Inside visitation will have see-through protection barriers in place between the visitor and resident. Outdoor visitation will be socially distanced and monitored by staff but no physical barriers are in place.
Please see Visitation In-Person — (ks.gov)
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WWRF Visitation Information not available at this time
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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:
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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Governor Laura Kelly, Kansas
“When we look at our correctional system, over 90-95% of those folks are going to be coming back into our Kansas communities. Be a whole lot better to use the time that they are in our system to provide an education, get training, get certificates, get licenses, so that when they come out they are ready to take the jobs that we know are available.”
Joe Reardon, President & CEO of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce
“KC Chamber members have told us the importance of reducing crime in our region and we believe one of the most effective strategies the business community can take is leading the conversation on hiring returning citizens. We believe in the importance of restoring dignity to incarcerated individuals through education and jobs training while giving them the tools to succeed when they are released from prison. We have also heard from our business community on the business case for hiring returning citizens. These team members often become the best employees a company has, and often remain the most loyal.”
Deb Kirby, Deb's Cattle Service
"I have had PI workers for over 10 years. I think this program is extremely beneficial in the reintegration of inmates to the workforce and life outside of prison. Many of these individuals have never had a job other than the streets. We try to teach skills that will benefit them wherever they decide to go once released. It also helps them to have some money in their pocket when they get out so they can hopefully get on their feet and not go back to their “old ways”. They get a peek of what life can be like if they make good choices once released."
Dave Cox, Plant Manager, Maico
“As far as reservations as far as hiring people with a felony background, there’s a lot of good guys that just simply made a bad choice at some point. Doesn’t necessarily make them a bad person for the rest of their life.”
If you are an employer interested in hiring KDOC residents, email KDOC_CareerCampus@ks.gov
or call 785-296-3317.
Private Industry Employers (June 3, 2022) | ||
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Aramark - EDCF Aramark - HCF Aramark - TCF Aramark - LCF Aramark - LCMHF Aramark - NCF Aramark - WCF BAC - LCF-Central Barkman Honey - HCF Blue Hill - NCF Cal-Maine - HCF-South Creekstone Farm - WCF Electrex - HCF East Evergreen - HCF Great Plains - ECF Heatron - LCF-East |
Henke - LCF-East Hess - NCF-East Hubco - HCF-East Husky Hogs - NCF Impact Embroidery - EDCF Kansas Protein Foods - HCF KBK Industries - LCMHF Kirby Cattle - LCMHF Kirby Enterprises - LCMHF KMW - HCF Koch - TCF LaCrosse - LCMHF LPF - LCF-Central Maico - ECF Martin Machine & Welding - HCF South |
NFL - TCF Mill Creek - HCF-South Moly - ECF Osborne - NCF Pioneer - EDCF PKM Steel - ECF Polo - TCF Russell Stover - TCF Seat King - HCF-Central Skyline - WCF Wifco - HCF-South Wilkens - NCF-East Zephyr - LCF-East |
The following is a list of all KDOC facilities eligible for PREA audits. Under the federal PREA mandate, a correctional facility is audited once every three years in a rotating cycle, beginning in 2014 with three facilities and continuing with three each year.
As facilities are audited and their corresponding audit reports are submitted to the KDOC, the audit report will be posted here in the corresponding facility. Lack of an audit report indicates that an audit has not been completed.
Adult Facilities |
Juvenile Facility |
KDOC PREA Annual Reports | Resources
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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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