75-5202. Definitions. As used in K.S.A. 75-5201 et seq., and amendments thereto, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:
(a) "Secretary" means the secretary of corrections.
(b) "Prisoner review board" means the prisoner review board established by K.S.A. 75-52,152, and amendments thereto.
(c) "Inmate" means any person incarcerated in any correctional institution of the state of Kansas.
(d) "Correctional institution" means the Lansing correctional facility, Hutchinson correctional facility, Topeka correctional facility, Norton correctional facility, Ellsworth correctional facility, Winfield correctional facility, Osawatomie correctional facility, Larned correctional mental health facility, Toronto correctional work facility, Stockton correctional facility, Wichita work release facility, El Dorado correctional facility, and any other correctional institution established by the state for the confinement of offenders under control of the secretary of corrections.
(e) "Warden" means the person in charge of the operation and supervision of a correctional institution.
(f) "Corrections officer" means a full-time, salaried officer or employee under the jurisdiction of the secretary, whose duties include the receipt, custody, control, maintenance, discipline, security and apprehension of persons convicted of criminal offense in this state and sentenced to a term of imprisonment under the custody of the secretary.
(g) "Parole officer" means a full-time salaried officer or employee under the jurisdiction of the secretary whose duties include:
(1) Investigation, supervision, arrest and control of persons on parole or postrelease supervision and the enforcement of the conditions of parole or postrelease supervision; and
(2) services which relate to probationers, parolees or persons on postrelease supervision and are required by the uniform act for out-of-state parolee supervision.
History: L. 1973, ch. 339, § 2; L. 1978, ch. 365, § 4; L. 1983, ch. 284, § 6; L. 1984, ch. 112, § 14; L. 1987, ch. 335, § 7; L. 1990, ch. 309, § 46; L. 1991, ch. 260, § 8; L. 1992, ch. 245, § 3; L. 1993, ch. 291, § 247; L. 2012, ch. 16, § 34; July 1.
Structure Kansas Statutes
Chapter 75 - State Departments; Public Officers And Employees
Article 52 - Department Of Corrections
75-5201 Purpose and construction.
75-5204 Division within department; deputy secretaries; qualifications and salary.
75-5205 Powers and duties of secretary of corrections; employees; office space.
75-5211 Inmate employment and training; withdrawals from pay; assistance upon release.
75-5212 Training for corrections and parole officers.
75-5214 Parole officers; appointment; powers; expenses; volunteer or contract services.
75-5216 Parole officers; duties; guidance developed by secretary of corrections.
75-5219 Copy of evidence transmitted to secretary; use of record.
75-5222 Apprehension of escaped inmate; warrant for; reward for apprehension.
75-5223 Religious materials, furnishing to inmates.
75-5224 Contagious disease or catastrophe; removal of inmates.
75-5225 Defect in order of commitment, no ground for action against warden or secretary.
75-5226 Unlawful use of inmate labor.
75-5229 Women sentenced to secretary's custody; examination, study, program; juvenile inmate.
75-5233 Contracting for transportation of inmates.
75-5246 Wardens, appointment; civil service; references to former director means warden.
75-5247 Oaths of corrections officers; uniforms.
75-5247a Powers and duties of corrections officers.
75-5248 Social counselor, psychologist or psychiatrist for certain correctional institutions.
75-5249 Chief physician; duties.
75-5252 Duties of wardens of institutions.
75-5253 Rules and regulations; contracts.
75-5254 Accounts and monthly reports by warden.
75-5255 Reports of operations, moneys and property by warden.
75-5257 Money and property of inmates; accounts.
75-5258 Deputy wardens; designation; duties.
75-5259 Record of conduct of inmates; report.
75-5260 Release of inmate from confinement unaccompanied by custodial agent, when.
75-5266 Psychiatric evaluation reports privileged.
75-5268 Work release and job training programs; disposition of compensation.
75-5275a Same; home building program; limitations on production of manufactured or modular homes.
75-5277 Same; exceptions to mandatory purchase requirement.
75-5280 Same; prices determined by secretary of corrections; exception for private enterprises.
75-5281 Prison-made goods; self-liquidating contracts.
75-5282 Correctional industries fund.
75-5284 Goods, wares and merchandise divested of interstate character on arrival in state.
75-5285 Transfer of existing designations to parole authority or officers.
75-5289 Same; disposition of lease proceeds.
75-5292 Same; qualifications; powers of county commissioners preserved; cooperative agreements.
75-5295 Powers of counties or groups of counties under act.
75-5298 Corrections advisory boards; terms; vacancies; officers; open proceedings, rules.
75-5299 Same; participation in formulating comprehensive plans.
75-52,102 Comprehensive plans for correctional services; requirements; new program proposals.
75-52,105 Semiannual grant payments; certified expenditure statements by counties.
75-52,107 State and county purchase of correctional services from grant-receiving counties.
75-52,111 Community corrections grants; determination of grant amounts; reductions.
75-52,113 Community corrections supervision fund.
75-52,121 Same; terms and conditions of repayment; period of loan.
75-52,122 Ellsworth correctional facility; establishment.
75-52,124 Same; management and control; warden.
75-52,125 Control and management of certain buildings and grounds used as correctional institutions.
75-52,126 Payment of claims to medical vendors not filed within fiscal year; limitation.
75-52,128 Inmate housing opportunities in cities and counties; secretary to consider.
75-52,131a Same; vesting of properties; references in statutes and other documents.
75-52,132 Community correctional conservation camp in Labette county; approved for bond financing.
75-52,133 Prohibition of certain local and private prisons.
75-52,134 Use of Topeka correctional facility.
75-52,135 Personal property of inmates, abandonment; disposition.
75-52,136 Lease of land under secretary's control for production of oil, gas or other minerals.
75-52,138 Certain civil actions filed by inmate; exhaustion of administrative remedies required.
75-52,140 Severability clause.
75-52,141 Conveyance of real estate in Ellsworth county.
75-52,142 Same; definition of tracts; authority of secretary.
75-52,142a Conveyance of real estate in Leavenworth county; authority of the secretary.
75-52,145 Secretary authorized to convey property in Reno county to city of Hutchinson.
75-52,146 Comprehensive plan for prison expansion, specialized facilities and training academy.
75-52,149 High-risk sex offenders; graduated risk assessment.
75-52,150 Correctional services special revenue fund.
75-52,151 Department of corrections forensic psychologist fund.
75-52,152 Prisoner review board; establishment.
75-52,153 Same; Kansas parole board abolished.
75-52,154 Same; successor to Kansas parole board.
75-52,155 Same; transfer of funds and accounts; use.
75-52,156 Same; conflicts; property and records.
75-52,157 Same; no abatement of civil as criminal proceedings.
75-52,159 Secretary authorized to purchase St. Francis boy's home.
75-52,160 Justice reinvestment working group; members; duties.
75-52,161 Juvenile justice oversight committee.
75-52,162 Confidential data exchange for juvenile justice system.
75-52,163 Funding for juvenile immediate intervention programs.
75-52,164 Evidence-based programs account of the state general fund.
75-52,166 Authorization to convey property in Mitchell county to the city of Beloit.
75-52,169 Same; budget for projects; authorization for establishment of a nonprofit corporation.
75-52,170 Same; duties of the secretary; requirements of agreements.