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TOPEKA, Kansas — One solution to Kansas prisons’ woes could come with a $35 million price tag for three new specialty prisons. The state’s corrections...
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Less than two weeks after a judge issued a blistering opinion on the taping of attorney-client conversations at the Leavenworth Detention Center, a...
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Kansas will send 360 of its male prisoners to a privately owned and operated prison in Eloy, Arizona, starting this summer. The Kansas Department of...
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Kansas can no longer put off care for Medicaid patients with hepatitis C because of a recent legal settlement . But hundreds of the state’s prison...
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The state spending review panel is freeing up some of the money the Kansas Department of Corrections asked for to place inmates in county jails and...
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Kansas may soon turn to private contractors to take the overflow from its crowded prisons, raising questions about growing costs and the reliability of...
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The Kansas secretary of corrections calls staffing shortages at a state prison an emergency. Worker shortages are a persistent problem the state prison...
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Hunter Defenbaugh loves working in prison. Five nights a week, the 19-year-old corrections officer works overnight shifts in the infirmary at El Dorado...
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Kansas prisons spend almost four times as much on overtime pay as they did six years ago. The state paid out more than $8.2 million on overtime in...