prisons

Bills on drug sentencing, probation and marijuana possession stalled in the Kansas Legislature this year. Instead, lawmakers continue to consider...

The company hired to provide health care in Kansas prisons is getting paid millions less than its contracted amount after failing to meet the agreement...

The Kansas secretary of corrections calls staffing shortages at a state prison an emergency. Worker shortages are a persistent problem the state prison...

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...

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...

Let’s say you’re arrested. You’re booked into your local jail and the district attorney decides to press charges. The next day, you make your first...

Inmates broke dozens of windows and set fires during a weekend disturbance at the maximum-security prison in El Dorado, the scene of other incidents last…

Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer on Tuesday denied pardon requests for 21 of the state's inmates.Colyer made the announcement at a press conference in Wichita.…

Kansas jails are facing a rising likelihood of births behind bars amid a nationwide increase in women's incarceration.The Topeka Capital-Journal reports…

Richard Jones spent 17 years in a Kansas prison for a robbery committed by his doppelganger. When he was exonerated and released last June, he had...