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Kansas Department Of Corrections
The Kansas Department of Corrections (KDOC) is a cabinet-level agency of Kansas that operates the state's correctional facilities, both juvenile and adult, the state's parole system, and the state's Prisoner Review Board. It is headquartered in Topeka, Kansas, Topeka. Correctional facilities The Kansas Department of Corrections operates eight adult correctional facility sites, three satellite correctional facility sites, and one juvenile correctional facility. * El Dorado Correctional Facility (inmate capacity 1955) * Ellsworth Correctional Facility (inmate capacity 913) * Hutchinson Correctional Facility (inmate capacity 1862) * Kansas Juvenile Correctional Complex (offender capacity 270) * Lansing Correctional Facility (inmate capacity 1906) * Larned Correctional Mental Health Facility (inmate capacity 626) * Norton Correctional Facility (inmate capacity 975) *Topeka Correctional Facility (inmate capacity 903) – Women's facility * Winfield Correctional Facility (inmate capa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Topeka, Kansas
Topeka ( ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Shawnee County. It is along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, in northeastern Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 126,587. The city, laid out in 1854, was one of the Free-State towns founded by Eastern antislavery men immediately after the passage of the Kansas–Nebraska Bill. In 1857, Topeka was chartered as a city. The city is well known for the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case '' Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka'', which overturned '' Plessy v. Ferguson'' and declared racial segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional. History Name The name "Topeka" is a Kansa-Osage word that means "place where we dig potatoes", or "a good place to dig potatoes". As a placename, Topeka was first recorded in 1826 as the Kansa name for what is now called the Kansas River. Topeka's founders chose the name in 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CoreCivic
CoreCivic, Inc. formerly the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), is a company that owns and manages private prisons and detention centers and operates others on a concession basis. Co-founded in 1983 in Nashville, Tennessee, by Thomas W. Beasley, Robert Crants (CEO), Robert Crants, and T. Don Hutto, it received investments from the Tennessee Valley Authority, Vanderbilt University, and Jack C. Massey, the founder of HCA Healthcare, Hospital Corporation of America. As of 2024, the company is the second largest private corrections company in the United States and the nation's largest owner of partnership correctional, detention, and residential reentry facilities. CoreCivic manages more than 65 state and federal correctional and detention facilities with a capacity of more than 76,000 beds in 19 states and the District of Columbia. The company's revenue in 2012 exceeded $1.7 billion. By 2015, its contracts with federal correctional and detention authorities generated up to 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Corrections Departments Of The United States
State most commonly refers to: * State (polity), a centralized political organization that regulates law and society within a territory **Sovereign state, a sovereign polity in international law, commonly referred to as a country **Nation state, a state where the majority identify with a single nation (with shared culture or ethnic group) ** Constituent state, a political subdivision of a state ** Federated state, constituent states part of a federation *** U.S. state * State of nature, a concept within philosophy that describes the way humans acted before forming societies or civilizations State may also refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Literature * '' State Magazine'', a monthly magazine published by the U.S. Department of State * ''The State'' (newspaper), a daily newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, United States * '' Our State'', a monthly magazine published in North Carolina and formerly called ''The State'' * The State (Larry Niven), a fictional future gover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prison
A prison, also known as a jail, gaol, penitentiary, detention center, correction center, correctional facility, or remand center, is a facility where Prisoner, people are Imprisonment, imprisoned under the authority of the State (polity), state, usually as punishment for various crimes. They may also be used to house those awaiting trial (pre-trial detention). Prisons are most commonly used within a criminal justice, criminal-justice system by authorities: people charged with crimes may be Remand (detention), imprisoned until their trial; and those who have pleaded or been found Guilt (law), guilty of crimes at trial may be Sentence (law), sentenced to a specified period of imprisonment. Prisons can also be used as a tool for political repression by authoritarianism, authoritarian regimes who Political prisoner, detain perceived opponents for political crimes, often without a fair trial or due process; this use is illegal under most forms of international law governing fair admi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of U
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but lists are frequently written down on paper, or maintained electronically. Lists are "most frequently a tool", and "one does not ''read'' but only ''uses'' a list: one looks up the relevant information in it, but usually does not need to deal with it as a whole". Lucie Doležalová,The Potential and Limitations of Studying Lists, in Lucie Doležalová, ed., ''The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing'' (2009). Purpose It has been observed that, with a few exceptions, "the scholarship on lists remains fragmented". David Wallechinsky, a co-author of '' The Book of Lists'', described the attraction of lists as being "because we live in an era of overstimulation, especially in terms of information, and lists help ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of United States State Correction Agencies
This is a list of corrections agencies in the U.S. state, states of the United States. State adult prison agencies * Alabama Department of Corrections * Alaska Department of Corrections * Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry * Arkansas Department of Correction * California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation * Colorado Department of Corrections * Connecticut Department of Correction * Delaware Department of Correction * District of Columbia Department of Corrections * Florida Department of Corrections * Georgia Department of Corrections * Hawaii Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation * Idaho Department of Correction * Illinois Department of Corrections * Indiana Department of Correction * Iowa Department of Corrections * Kansas Department of Corrections * Kentucky Department of Corrections * Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections * Maine Department of Corrections * Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Law Enforcement Agencies In Kansas
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Kansas. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 ''Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies,'' the state had 371 law enforcement agencies employing 7,450 sworn police officers, about 266 for each 100,000 residents. State agencies * Kansas Bureau of Investigation * Kansas Department of Corrections * Kansas Department of Revenue ** Kansas State Alcoholic Beverage Control * Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism * Kansas Highway Patrol * Kansas State Fire Marshal * Kansas Lottery Security & Law Enforcement Division (S.L.E.D.) * Kansas Department of Labor * Kansas Attorney General's Office County agencies * Allen County Sheriff's Office * Anderson County Sheriff's Office * Atchison County Sheriff's Office * Barber County Sheriff's Office * Barton County Sheriff's Office * Bourbon County Sheriff's Office * Brown County Sheriff's Office * Butler County Sheriff's Office * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Topeka Correctional Facility
Topeka Correctional Facility is a Kansas Department of Corrections state prison for women located in Topeka, Kansas. Built in the 1970s, in 1995 it became the only women's prison in the state. It administers a wide range of security levels, from maximum security through work-release. The site was founded in 1905 as the Topeka Industrial Institute by the African American educator Edward S. Stephens, as a school on its own farmland, more or less modeled on the Tuskegee Institute. The school closed in 1955. The state would send a woman sentenced to death to this prison in the event that such happens. The execution chamber for prisoners of all genders is at Lansing Correctional Facility. Conditions Conditions in the facility have long been identified as extremely problematic. A series of investigative articles in ''The Topeka Capital-Journal'' in September 2009 revealed a "complex black market" of contraband, bribes, and a sex trade, practices that culminated in a prison e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas State Cabinet
The Kansas State Cabinet is part of the executive branch of the Government of the U.S. state of Kansas, consisting of the appointed heads of the Kansas state executive departments. Current cabinet departments The Kansas State Cabinet, under current Governor Laura Kelly, consists of the Lieutenant Governor of Kansas, the Adjutant General, the Superintendent of Highway Patrol, and eleven departments each headed by a Secretary. * Lieutenant Governor – chief deputy to the Governor, responsible for acting as Governor during the Governor's absence. * The Adjutant General – runs the day-to-day administration of the Kansas National Guard, including the organization, training, and preparation of the Guard. * Secretary of Administration – manages the Kansas Department of Administration, oversees many of the administrative areas of the state's bureaus and departments, including payroll, maintenance of public buildings, and information technology. * Secretary for Aging and Disability Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lansing Correctional Facility
Lansing Correctional Facility (LCF) is a state prison operated by the Kansas Department of Corrections. LCF is located in Lansing, Kansas, in Leavenworth County, Kansas, Leavenworth County. LCF, along with the Federal Bureau of Prison's United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, the United States Army Corrections Command's United States Disciplinary Barracks, and Midwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility in Fort Leavenworth are the four major prisons that give the Leavenworth area its reputation as a corrections center. History The facility was originally known as the Kansas State Penitentiary (KSP) and was built by prison labor in the 1860s. The name was changed to Lansing Correctional Facility in 1990. Construction of the cell houses was completed in 1867. The facility began housing Kansas inmates Felony, felons in July 1868 and housed felons from Oklahoma from 1889 to 1909. The prison stopped admitting prisoners temporarily in the spring of 1896 and January 1900 as a result ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hutchinson Correctional Facility
Hutchinson Correctional Facility (HCF) is a state prison operated by the Kansas Department of Corrections located in Hutchinson, Kansas, United States. The prison was originally known as the Kansas State Industrial Reformatory (KSIR) and designed to house younger offenders. Construction on KSIR began in 1885, but delays prevented completion of the facility, which would not begin housing inmates until 1895. The name of the facility was changed to Hutchinson Correctional Facility in 1990, and today the prison houses an average of 1,830 inmates. Low security inmates at HCF have the opportunity to work on several projects such as highway maintenance, cleanup and maintenance at the annual state fair, assisting various public works departments of the city of Hutchinson and maintenance at Cheney State Park. The prison also offers the Kansas Wild Horse Program, which trains wild horses taken from land operated by the Bureau of Land Management. Notable inmates * Israel Mireles: Convict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
