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The Kansas Department of Corrections operates eight adult correctional facility sites, three satellite correctional facility sites, and one juvenile correctional facility. [3] El Dorado Correctional Facility (inmate capacity 1955) Ellsworth Correctional Facility (inmate capacity 913) Hutchinson Correctional Facility (inmate capacity 1862)
EDCF also houses male inmates sentenced to death by Kansas courts. There is no specific part of the prison that is the "death row". Inmates sentenced to death are housed in administrative segregation ("AdSeg"). The state currently has nine inmates on death row, all male, with eight of them at El Dorado. [1]
When the Kansas Department of Corrections opened a newly constructed Lansing Correctional Facility in Lansing, Kansas, in 2020 it meant the old, stone-walled prison building that housed inmates ...
In August 2010, two inmates overpowered an MP guard in the Special Housing Unit. They then were joined by 11 others. The guard was freed by a special tactics unit which retook control of the Special Housing Unit. Several inmates and one rescuer sustained non-life-threatening injuries in the incident. This was the first such incident in the new ...
About 80% of inmates suffer from mental illness, drug addiction or both, Pishny estimated. One inmate has been waiting for a court-ordered mental health evaluation since August of 2021.
A transgender inmate at the Kansas women's prison in Topeka has so far failed to convince a federal judge she is being discriminated against. Michelle Renee Lamb in November sued Gov. Laura Kelly ...
List of People Executed in Kansas; Number Name Date Notes 1 George Miller: May 6, 1950: 2 Preston McBride: April 6, 1951: 3 James Bernard Lammers: January 5, 1952
The inmate was arrested on a charge of driving while intoxicated and a parole violation from an earlier case, according to Newburyport News. The cause of death was hanging, using a "anti-suicide" bedsheet. The inmate was on suicide watch, according to Newburyport News. Jail or Agency: Rockingham County Department of Corrections; State: New ...