Topeka Correctional Facility News

Great Plains Running Company wants to partner with people in the community to make the holidays brighter for women involved in the Topeka Correctional Facility Running Free group.

Could babies be behind bars in Kansas? For the past 12 years, officials at the Topeka Correctional Facility have been fighting to get a nursery in the prison so mothers who give birth in prison and their babies can get critical bonding within the first 18 months of life.

Here are excerpts from recent editorials in Kansas newspapers: Nov. 16, The Salina Journal on Hawker.

The City of Topeka, the Jayhawk Area Agency on Aging, and the Topeka Independent Living Resource Center on Friday announced the 4th Annual a oeSnow Relief Team.a The team will consist of five or six crews of women inmates from the Topeka Correctional Facility, and two male inmate crews from Shawnee County Department of Corrections.

It may well be that Keen Umbehr will never be a very good lawyer. Too moral. Too righteous.

Independent consultants sought by Gov. Mark Parkinson to evaluate the Topeka Correctional Facility amid allegations employees engaged in sexual relations with female inmates have scheduled a visit to the prison for December, officials said Wednesday.

A lawyer who helped uncover illegal sexual relationships at the state's prison for women in East Topeka said Wednesday the corrections department acted in "bad faith and with reckless disregard for the facts" in filing an ethics complaint against him.

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If allegations that some corrections officers and staff members sexually abused female inmates at the Topeka Correctional Facility are proven during the independent investigation requested by Gov.

The Kansas Department of Corrections is seeking disciplinary action against an attorney who helped a reporter investigate illegal sexual relationships at a state prison for women.

Further revelations about sex between staff and the female inmates at the Topeka Correctional Facility offer supporting evidence that Gov.

Monday, October 26, 2009 Kansas prison officials are considering installing tracking equipment in corrections vehicles after allegations were raised about guards having sex with female inmates off prison grounds.

Kansas prison officials are considering installing tracking equipment in corrections vehicles after allegations were raised about guards having sex with female inmates off prison grounds.

Two women paroled from the Topeka Correctional Facility accused a guard of transporting them in a state vehicle to remote sites near the prison to engage in sexual activity.

Legislators have initiated their own audit of Kansas corrections system because of allegations of widespread sex between staff members and inmates at the states womens prison, a newspaper reported Tuesday.

The auditing arm of the Legislature will evaluate allegations some Kansas Department of Corrections employees traffic in contraband and engage in sexual misconduct with inmates, officials said Monday.

Prison sex - Reports of the illicit drug and sex trade between employees and inmates at the Topeka Correctional Facility make it abundantly clear the Kansas Department of Corrections needs to improve its security measures and increase supervision of its workers.

Gov. Mark Parkinson is calling for an independent review of the state's corrections systems.

Gov. Mark Parkinson asked Wednesday for an independent review of the Kansas correctional system after allegations of sex between inmates and staff surfaced at the Topeka Correctional Facility.

An instructor at a medium-security facility has been named teacher of the year for South Carolina's prison system.