Kansas prisons

Phone calls, electronic messages or letters sent to people inside prison are not free. Those costs can add up quickly, especially for people in prison who may not make much.

The prison system announced the change after the Kansas News Service pointed out possible issues.

Centurion of Kansas has been fined almost 5,000 times for compliance issues.

Inmates at prisons in Oswego are headed to other facilities in Kansas, mostly the Lansing Correctional Facility.

Kansans with substance use problems say they are falling through the cracks of a legal system that’s more concerned with punishing them than getting them sober.

The census defines a prisoner’s home address as the prison they are held at, but there is some effort to change that.

Since August 2020, more than 200 people have started treatment for drug addiction at Crawford County Jail. Most continued their treatment after leaving jail.

Transgender inmates say they were targets of harassment by staff and inmates that put them in danger.

The Kansas Department of Corrections has been losing staff throughout 2021. Now, it doesn't have enough people to have in-person visitation at one of its prisons. Visits were also shutdown earlier in the pandemic.

There are more than 400 uniformed vacancies at Kansas Department of Corrections prisons. The worker shortage means corrections officers taking on tons of overtime and inmates are locked in their cells for long stretches.