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The maximum-security unit at Kansas’ Lansing prison was on lockdown on Friday afternoon following a fight earlier in the day in the prison lunchroom. A...
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The head of the Kansas Department of Corrections says he sees no connection between last week’s riot at a prison in Norton and disturbances earlier this...
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Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback announced immediate pay increases for corrections officers during a news conference Thursday afternoon at the state prison in...
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Kansas lawmakers had some tough questions Thursday for Corrections Secretary Joe Norwood about staff shortages that recently contributed to several...
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Staffing shortages at the El Dorado Correctional Facility are creating unsafe working conditions, according to the head of the union that represents...
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Near the end of the Obama administration, prison reform advocates had grown cautiously optimistic that America’s pattern of incarcerating two million US…
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A new program for at-risk juvenile offenders in the criminal justice system was launched in 52 western Kansas counties and 29 northeastern counties last…
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Christmas was made just a little bit brighter this year for some low-income children, thanks to gifts from an unexpected source.Some of the worst…
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Over the next decade, Oklahoma will need three more prisons if the state doesn’t take action to constrain the prison population, which as The Oklahoman…
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People in rural areas are now 50 percent more likely to go to prison than people in urban areas, reports The New York Times. That’s a major shift from a…