75-5288. Lease of facilities at correctional institutions for private enterprises; term; inmate employment; laws applicable to lessees; authority over institutions and inmates preserved. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of K.S.A. 75-3738 to 75-3744, inclusive, and amendments thereto or of any other laws to the contrary, the secretary of corrections may lease one or more buildings or portions thereof on the grounds of any correctional institution, together with the real estate needed for reasonable access to and egress from the leased buildings, for a term not to exceed 20 years, to a private individual, firm, corporation or other lawful entity for the purpose of establishing and operating a business enterprise for the manufacture and processing of goods, wares or merchandise, or any other business or commercial enterprise deemed by the secretary of corrections to be consistent with the proper training and rehabilitation of inmates.
(b) Subject to approval by the secretary of corrections, any corporation operating a factory or other business or commercial enterprise under this section may employ selected inmates of the correctional institution upon whose grounds it operates.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of K.S.A. 75-3738 to 75-3744, inclusive, article 12 of chapter 75 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, article 58 of chapter 75 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, or of any other laws to the contrary, the secretary of corrections may enter into agreements with a private individual, firm, corporation or other lawful entity for the purpose of accepting as a donation, lease or purchase, on behalf of the state any building or renovation of a building to be used for the manufacture and processing of goods, wares or merchandise, or any other business or commercial enterprise deemed by the secretary of corrections to be consistent with the proper training and rehabilitation of inmates.
(1) Such agreements may provide for the financing, design, construction or renovation of such buildings on the grounds of correctional facilities. The secretary may not obligate the expenditure of state funds except as provided by K.S.A. 75-5281, and amendments thereto.
(2) Buildings constructed or renovated pursuant to this section shall become the property of the state as provided by such agreements or after 20 years, whichever time period is shorter.
(d) Any business enterprise established under the provisions of this section shall be deemed a private enterprise and subject to all the laws, rules and regulations of this state governing the operation of similar business enterprises elsewhere in this state.
(e) The authority of the secretary of corrections over the institutions of the department of corrections and the inmates thereof shall not be diminished by this section.
History: L. 1978, ch. 366, § 2; L. 1999, ch. 163, § 4; 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.