Karen Bonar, a Catholic in Kansas, remembers accompanying Bishop Edward Weisenburger in the mid-2010s to a correctional facility in Ellsworth, Kansas, where he administered Confirmation to ...

State Finance Council settles prison inmate lawsuit for $4,000 and sells two homes in Hutchinson owned by Kansas State Fair ...

We serve the surrouning counties including Russell, Ellsworth, Rush, Rice, and Pawnee. Barton has partnerships to the Kansas Department of Corrections in addition to the correctional facilities ...

“The collaboration with our judicial-district counties is always beneficial because it promotes partnerships with entities such as Central Kansas Community Corrections and health departments.

More women in Kansas are being sentenced to prison. The Kansas Sentencing Commission predicts the state’s only women’s prison ...

After spending 20 years trapped in a cycle of addiction, Jodi Whitt from Topeka has now dedicated her life to helping inmates ...

The largest private prison company in the U.S. appears poised to pursue a contract with ICE to detain immigrants, despite ...

A man has received a life sentence for kidnapping a girl from Illinois and bringing her to Wichita, where he assaulted her.

A day room attached to cells at the Midwest Regional Reception Center private prison in Leavenworth, Kansas, Matthew Kelly Some of those detainees are already being held in a different Leavenworth ...

His death certificate says Topekan Brooks Robinson Vonthaer, found dead Oct. 22 in his cell at a Kansas prison, had suffered fatal injuries two days earlier. "He laid in there dead for two whole ...