El Dorado Correctional Facility News

On Christmas Eve 35 years ago, Priscilla Ann Frey, Kansas inmate No. 9782, escaped from the Lansing Correctional Facility.

In a letter sent from his cell at El Dorado Correctional Facility, Phillip Cheatham expresses his Islamic faith.

David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" murderer of six people in the late 1970s, is serving six consecutive life sentences in the Sullivan Correctional Facility in Fallsburg.

One of the cells at the long-term segregation unit at the El Dorado Correctional Facility, Wednesday, November 5, 2009.

Justice Concepts Inc., a consultant that missed its deadline to reduce the Sedgwick County Jail's population by 25 percent, will receive additional money for work it says it did outside its contract.

Linda Kaufman, a nurse convicted of defrauding and abusing the mentally ill residents of the Newton home she ran with her husband, Arlan, told a federal judge she has been a positive influence on fellow inmates during her four years in prison.

This building behind this gate at the Lansing Correctional Facility houses the state's execution chamber.

Published online 9/19/2009 10:30 PM Prisons can't contain rising medical costs Health care costs have spiked with a population growing older and sicker By Ken Stephens - The Hutchinson News - kstephens@hutchnews.com The health clinic at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility sees more than 1,000 prisoners a month for everything from minor illnesses ...

A federal judge last week granted Amber Lynn Goff a one-year reduction of her sentence on a firearms conviction stemming from the October 2007 escape from the El Dorado Correctional Facility.

A former Kansas prison guard romantically involved with one of two inmates she helped escape won't have to serve all of her original five-year sentence.

The Spiritual Life Center being built at the El Dorado Correctional Facility will feature a 300-seat auditorium, an 80-seat multipurpose room, five classrooms, two offices for chaplains, a library and conference room.

Local prison inmates will soon have a center where they can receive spiritual training as the El Dorado Correctional Facility is completing work on a new Spiritual Life Center for prisoners.

Local prison inmates will soon have a center where they can receive spiritual training as the El Dorado Correctional Facility is completing work on a new Spiritual Life Center for prisoners.

Prisoners don't have very much at all to be excited about, but that's not the case these days at the El Dorado Correctional Facility.

Local prison inmates will soon have a center where they can receive spiritual training as the El Dorado Correctional Facility is completing work on a new Spiritual Life Center for prisoners.

Butler County plans to bus in up to 40 minimum-security inmates to continue helping with public works projects.

The state took away Butler County's convict laborers, so the county is setting up a bus line to bring them back.

Eric M. Rabicoff is accused of devised a scheme in 2006 to defraud lenders by recruiting people to pretend to buy homes and submit false information to get loans.

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