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The Kansas Sentencing Commission was established in 1989 as a result of the passage of Senate Bill 50 that same year. The enabling legislation, "The Kansas Sentencing Guidelines Act" is set forth in K.S.A. 21-4701 et seq. [3] The Commission's offices are located in Topeka, Kansas. [4]
Chart below has numbers for people in adult facilities, and for people on probation and on parole. [24] The incarceration numbers for the states in the chart below are for sentenced and unsentenced inmates in adult facilities in local jails and state prisons. Numbers for federal prisons are in the Federal line.
The Governor of Kansas has the power of clemency in capital cases, which they may exercise after receiving a non-binding recommendation from a board. [8] In 2004, the Kansas Supreme Court in a 4 to 3 decision ruled that the state's death penalty statute was unconstitutional. [9] The decision was later reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court in Kansas v
The Kansas Department of Corrections (KDOC) [1] is a cabinet-level agency of Kansas that operates the state's correctional facilities, both juvenile and adult, the state's parole system, and the state's Prisoner Review Board.
Lansing Correctional Facility (LCF) is a state prison operated by the Kansas Department of Corrections.LCF is located in Lansing, Kansas, in Leavenworth County.LCF, along with the Federal Bureau of Prison's United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, the United States Army Corrections Command's United States Disciplinary Barracks, and Midwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility in Fort ...
Most people did their best to avoid this place for nearly 160 years. That’s about to change. When the Kansas Department of Corrections opened a newly constructed Lansing Correctional Facility in ...
A transgender inmate at the Kansas women's prison in Topeka has so far failed to convince a federal judge she is being discriminated against. Michelle Renee Lamb in November sued Gov. Laura Kelly ...
The exception to this rule occurs when the court determines that such use would violate the ex post facto clause of the Constitution – in other words, if the sentencing guidelines have changed so as to increase the penalty "after the fact", so that the sentence is more severe on the sentencing date than was established on the date that the ...