James Heimgartner stepped down Thursday as warden of the El Dorado prison, department spokesman Todd Fertig said. The warden of another maximum-security prison in southern Kansas will take over ...

TOPEKA. Kansas corrections officers at the state prison in El Dorado will soon return to eight-hour shifts after a months-long emergency declaration meant mandatory overtime and 12-hour days.

Two of Kansas’ largest prisons, the El Dorado and Lansing correctional facilities, are struggling to find enough workers, costing taxpayer dollars for overtime pay and, some say, jeopardizing ...

The Kansas secretary of corrections calls staffing shortages at a state prison an emergency.Worker shortages are a persistent problem the state prison… Search Query Show Search News ...

The Kansas Department of Corrections may have downplayed the severity of an incident at the El Dorado Correctional Facility. The incident began about 9 a.m. June 29, according to Robert ...

Two of Kansas’ largest prisons, El Dorado and Lansing, ... In late June, the agency sent mailers to more than 18,000 homes within a 60-mile radius of the El Dorado prison.

The El Dorado facility faced staffing problems before the coronavirus pandemic. In 2019, Gov. Laura Kelly declared an emergency at the prison due to staffing shortages inside the facility, which ...

The Kansas Department of Corrections says some inmates are refusing to return to their cells at the state's maximum-security prison, but that no violence or injuries have been reported.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A 25-year veteran of the Kansas prison system will take over as the warden of a maximum-security prison that had multiple inmate disturbances last summer.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The warden of a maximum-security Kansas prison that's had multiple inmate disturbances in the past three months took a new job within the state Department of Corrections, the ...