75-5211. Inmate employment and training; withdrawals from pay; assistance upon release. (a) The secretary of corrections shall provide programs of employment, work, educational or vocational training for those inmates whom the secretary determines are available, willing and able to participate and are capable of benefiting therefrom. Equipment, management practices and general procedures shall, to the extent possible, approximate normal conditions of employment. Such work week may include schooling, vocational training, employment at private industry, treatment or other activities authorized by the secretary. For all purposes under state law, no inmate shall be deemed to be an employee of the state or any state agency. The secretary of corrections may credit to each inmate as a reward for such employment, an amount which shall be set by the secretary of corrections. Any inmate who is gainfully employed under the work release provisions of K.S.A. 75-5267 and 75-5268, and amendments thereto, or who is gainfully employed by a private business enterprise operating on the grounds of a correctional institution under K.S.A. 75-5288, and amendments thereto, or any other private business at which inmates are permitted to be gainfully employed, and any inmate who is incarcerated at the Topeka correctional facility for the purpose of receiving diagnosis and any inmate on disciplinary segregation status shall not be eligible to receive compensation as provided in this subsection.
(b) The secretary of corrections shall establish programs and prescribe procedures for withdrawing amounts from the compensation paid to inmates from all sources for the same purposes as are prescribed by K.S.A. 75-5268, and amendments thereto, for moneys of work release participants, except that any inmate employed in a private industry program, other than work release, shall, in addition to the deductions specified in K.S.A. 75-5268, and amendments thereto, have deduction of 5% of monthly gross wages paid to the following funds for the purpose of victim assistance or compensation: (1) Department of corrections victim assistance fund or the crime victims compensation fund, as determined by the secretary, on and after July 1, 2008, through June 30, 2009; and (2) crime victims compensation fund or a local property crime fund on and after July 1, 2009. The department of corrections is authorized to make this deduction and payment to the department of corrections victim assistance fund, the crime victims compensation fund or a local property crime fund, as applicable. On and after July 1, 2009, in the event a local fund has made a payment to a victim of a property crime under this act and there is an order of restitution for which moneys are being withheld from an inmate under K.S.A. 75-5268, and amendments thereto, the secretary shall cause such moneys deducted for use by the state crime victims compensation board to be paid quarterly to the local fund, if any, then the balance to the state crime victims compensation fund. If there is no order of restitution, then K.S.A. 75-5268, and amendments thereto, shall apply to the disposition of funds.
(c) (1) Upon the initial release of any inmate on parole, conditional release, postrelease supervision or expiration of the inmate's maximum sentence, the inmate shall be provided with suitable clothing and, if the inmate has a balance of $500 or less in the inmate's trust account, a cash payment of $100. If the inmate subsequently violates a condition of release resulting in reincarceration and is thereafter again released on parole, conditional release, postrelease supervision or expiration of the inmate's maximum sentence, the inmate may be provided, pursuant to rules and regulations of the secretary of corrections, with a cash payment of not more than $100. Any inmate who is gainfully employed under the work release provisions of K.S.A. 75-5267 and 75-5268, and amendments thereto, or who is gainfully employed by a private business enterprise operating on the grounds of a correctional institution under K.S.A. 75-5288, and amendments thereto, or any other private business at which inmates are permitted to be gainfully employed, or any inmate paroled or released to a detainer shall not be eligible to receive this cash payment unless the inmate is released to the community within 30 days of the execution of the detainer.
(2) An inmate released on expiration of the inmate's maximum sentence shall be provided public transportation, if required, to the inmate's home, if within the state, or, if not, to the place of conviction or to some other place not more distant, as selected by the inmate. An inmate released on parole or conditional release shall be provided public transportation, if required, to the place to which the inmate was paroled or conditionally released.
History: L. 1973, ch. 339, § 11; L. 1975, ch. 458, § 2; L. 1978, ch. 366, § 5; L. 1980, ch. 286, § 1; L. 1981, ch. 348, § 1; L. 1984, ch. 330, § 2; L. 1986, ch. 334, § 1; L. 1986, ch. 308, § 2; L. 1988, ch. 346, § 1; L. 1989, ch. 239, § 25; L. 1990, ch. 321, § 17; L. 1991, ch. 260, § 10; L. 1993, ch. 144, § 1; L. 1997, ch. 104, § 1; L. 2003, ch. 122, § 1; L. 2008, ch. 91, § 1; 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.