prisons

Throughout September, KMUW's Engage ICT convened on Sept. 13 to discuss the state of incarceration in Kansas, as part of Engage ICT's month-long focus on incarceration.

The attorney’s argument, if successful, could have a far-reaching effect on a two-tiered system of justice in Kansas, in which those who can afford to pay court fines are held to a different standard than those who can’t.

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

Kansas prisons were hotbeds of coronavirus infections early in the pandemic, but vaccinations appear to have protected those inmates living in close quarters.

The group detailed "stabbings, suicides and even homicide" at the CoreCivic facility in Leavenworth.

TOPEKA — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s administration plans to begin giving COVID-19 vaccinations to Kansas prison inmates this week, ignoring a call from…

TOPEKA — Kansas expects to finish giving COVID-19 vaccines to long-term care residents and health care workers by the end of this month and has moved…

More than 5,000 inmates and 975 prison staff have tested positive for the coronavirus.

The COVID-19 case numbers started to rise at the prison just this month, and family members of people who are incarcerated there say they've been told not all staff members or inmates wear masks.

TOPEKA — An inmate at Larned Correctional Facility has died from COVID-19 — the fifth state prison inmate to die from the coronavirus since the pandemic…