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| Overwhelmed Kansas prisons ship inmates to Texas |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 01/12/2004 |
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Kansas, out of space for medium- and maximum-security male prison inmates, has transferred some to a private prison in Texas. Forty-eight medium-custody inmates from the state prisons at Hutchinson and El Dorado were transferred to Texas because of crowding created by a continuing increase of inmates, said Secretary of Corrections Roger Werholtz. Space for medium- and maximum-security male inmates has already run out, despite projections that indicate the state won't reach its 9,244-bed capacity until 2007, officials said. As of last Friday, the Hutchinson Correctional Facility central unit was 113 inmates over capacity, the El Dorado central unit was 95 over capacity, and the Lansing central unit was 10 over capacity, the Kansas Department of Corrections said. The situation has prompted the prisons to put more inmates per cell. At Hutchinson, for example, some four-man cells now have five inmates, department spokesman Bill Miskell said. The inmates sent to Texas tend to have less-violent histories, Miskell said. Officials also tried to send inmates who have not been receiving regular visitors. The transfer is part of a contract between Kansas and CiviGenics, the nation's second largest privately held corrections operator. Under the contract, Kansas is charged $38.50 a day per inmate. Federal grants will pay most of the cost, at least for this year, Miskell said. |
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