Kansas Inmate Search & Prison Directory

Community corrections is an integral component of the Bureau's correctional programs. Community corrections staff develop and administer contracts for community-based correctional programs and serve as the Bureau's local liaison with the Federal courts, the U.S. Marshals Service, state and local corrections, and a variety of community groups.

The North Central Regional Office is the operational base for the Regional Director, Senior Deputy Regional Director, Regional Counsel, and numerous Regional Administrators. Regional office staff provide technical assistance and support services to field staff at the 19 institutions and 6 community corrections offices in the North Central Region.

The United States Penitentiary (USP) in Leavenworth, Kansas, is a medium security facility housing male inmates and should be considered an FCI Medium. An adjacent satellite prison camp houses minimum security male offenders. USP Leavenworth is located 25 miles north of Kansas City, Kansas, on State Highway 73.

The facility is located one mile east of El Dorado on State Highway 54. The correctional facility has 427 full-time employees and has an operating budget of $22.3 million dollars. The average cost to house an inmate for one year at EDCF is $22,837. EDCF is a multi-custody correctional facility with a capacity to house 1,350 inmates and it is designed to house special management, maximum-, medium-, and minimum-custody inmates. Inmates assigned to the Central Unit are usually repeat offenders with a history of violent behavior.

The Ellsworth Correctional Facility (ECF) was approved for construction by the 1986 Legislature and was designed to house 226 minimum security inmates.The facility is now located on a 68.6-acre site and currently provides housing for 832 multi-custody inmates.The Ellsworth Correctional Facility is located in the northwest portion of the City of Ellsworth, Kansas. The facility is near the Ellsworth Municipal Airport at the intersection of Old Highway 40 Road and State Street. The intersection is � mile west of the junction of K-14 and K-140 or 1 mile west of the junction of K-156 and K-140. The City of Ellsworth is located on K-156 (approximately 11 miles south of I-70) and K-14 (approximately 8 miles south of I-70).

The Kansas State Penitentiary, whose name was legislatively changed to the Lansing Correctional Facility (LCF) on June 18, 1990, is the state's largest complex for detention and rehabilitation of adult male felony offenders. The complex consists of the Central Unit, which includes an 11-acre maximum security facility, and a 46-acre medium security facility, and the East Unit which is an 85-acre minimum security facility. Currently, the inmate population is capped at 2,489. Within the LCF complex, there are�four custody levels of inmates housed at the Lansing Correctional Facility, to include: special management, maximum, medium, and minimum custodies.

Construction of the 150-bed facility began on the grounds of the Larned State Hospital (LSH) in January 1991, and the facility was dedicated in December of that same year.� The facility received its first inmates on January 22, 1992.� LCMHF houses the most severely and persistently mentally ill inmates within the Kansas Department of Corrections, along with a significant number of inmates with borderline personality disorders or a conduct disorder which makes them an unacceptable risk for housing in another facility.The LCMHF West Unit, a building previously occupied by Larned State Hospital, is a minimum-custody facility housing up to 218 male offenders. These inmates are placed at the West Unit not for mental health treatment, but to provide support services to LCMHF and LSH, holding jobs that simulate the regular hours and routines usually associated with employment found in the community. Services include work in food service, laundry, maintenance, grounds-keeping, and various other areas.

Norton Correctional Facility capacity is 707 inmates, with 539 medium beds and 168 minimum beds. Stockton�s capacity is 128 minimum beds.

All womens prison

Wichita Work Release Facility (WWRF), a part of the Winfield Correctional Facility, is an all-male, minimum-custody state prison located in Wichita in south-central Kansas.� The purpose of the work release program is to prepare selected�inmates for release and to assist them in making a successful transition from the institutional environment back into free society.� Work release offers a unique opportunity to realize correctional objectives while permitting the participants to leave confinement and work in the community under close supervision and structure.

Winfield Correctional Facility (WCF), a part of the Kansas Department of Corrections, is an all-male, minimum-security state prison located in Cowley County in south central Kansas. WCF is located on the north side of Winfield at the site of the�former Winfield State Hospital & Training Center.

The new jail holds 64 housing beds, 10 work release beds, a booking area with vehicle sallyport, a cooking kitchen commercial style laundry, offices and support spaces for the jail, a large property storage room, sheriff staff offices, records room, evidence storage, conference rooms, maintenance area and a basement for use as the 911 dispatch area.

Not yet open - will house a brand new 41 bed facility focusing on officer and inamte safety

The current Butler County Detention Facility opened in January of 2003. It is a modern 250-bed facility located one mile east of El Dorado, south of US Highway 54 on Stone Road. The facility employees 61 full time detention officers and houses inmates from not only Butler County, but also supplies beds to the US Marshals Service, Immigration and Naturalization Service, and various other outside agencies.

The Jail is staffed 24 hours per day, seven days a week. When a prisoner is brought to the Jail they are processed. If the charges are bondable, they are given the opportunity to do so before being placed in population. If they are charged with a felony, they are held in Jail until they have the opportunity to see the judge unless a bond has been previously set.

The design of this 196-bed, 107,000 square foot facility was based on a direct supervision pod concept, developed to allow the largest number of inmates to be directly supervised with the fewest staff possible.

The Johnson County Adult Detention Centers were designed and constructed to provide citizens of Johnson County with safe and secure facilities that either meet or exceed the standards articulated by local, state, federal, and professional agencies.

The center houses the police operations, investigations, offices, and a jail facility. Specifically, the jail was designed to house 75 persons of varied classification levels in both direct and indirect supervision settings with design accommodations to expand to 120 inmates.

Construction on the New Detention Center began in 1989 and opened its doors in February 1990. Since then, more than 100,000 individuals have been booked in and out of the Center. It contains bed space for 289 males and 38 females. When the facility hits maximum capacity, individuals are sent to and housed at other counties . The detainee population consists mostly of pre-trial offenders, which means that they are awaiting trial and sentencing on the offense for which they are being prosecuted. After their trials, depending on the severity of their defenses, they serve their time at the Wyandotte County Detention Center or at a State facility.