Corrections Officer

Corrections Officer Starting Wage: $23.54/hr

Hutchinson Correctional Facility (HCF), Kansas’s second-largest prison for adult males, houses 1,784 residents across maximum, special management, medium, and minimum security levels. Its facilities include a walled main compound, an off-site medium-custody unit, and a minimum-security area. HCF also operates a KDOC transportation center, moving residents among state prisons. Key services like education, healthcare, and food are provided by private contractors, while efforts focus on maintaining its historic  buildings.

The Department of Corrections contracts for its educational and vocational services.

The education program offers a computer-based system that utilizes the “A+dvanced Learning System” for the GED program.

The curriculum has a literacy component to improve reading and math skills. Special Education is provided for students under the age of 21 and Title 1 services are provided.

The education program offers a computer-based system that utilizes the “A+dvanced Learning System” for the GED program.

The curriculum has a literacy component to improve reading and math skills.

Special Education is provided for students under the age of 21 and Title 1 services are provided.

Vocational programs offered are funded through a CBJT grant with Barton Community College and a cooperative effort with Hutchinson Community College. The programs are offered in HVAC, plumbing, AutoCAD, and manufacturing skills.

Vocational programs are offered in home building and construction woodworking.

HCF provides reentry planning and training in the following areas:

Money Smart

Parole Interactions

Pre-Employment

Relapse Prevention

Resource Rooms

Thinking for a Change

Freedom Challenge (affiliated with Teen Challenge International) is a faith-based, life skills program/work detail that addresses a resident’s life‑controlling issues by applying biblical principles to their everyday life in order to overcome the life‑controlling issues that lead to their incarceration. The eight‑month program contains an aftercare component inside and outside of prison, mentoring and community resources.

The program's mission is “setting prisoners free;” not from the prison bars they reside in, but from the life‑controlling issues that placed them there.

The word Freedom in the program's names stands for: FACILIATE change by RENEWING the mind, ESTABLISHING life skills and ENCOURAGING hope for a better future while helping individuals to DEVELOP character, OVERCOME adversities and MAINTAIN momentum for life.

Reaching Out From Within - Central, East, and South Units

Rock Castle Community
- Central Unit

Genesis Outreach
- East Unit

Incarcerated Veterans
- East Unit

Handicrafts
- Central, East, and South Units

Hobby Shop
- East Unit and South Unit

The Wild Horse Program at HCF partners with the Bureau of Land Management to gentle and train wild horses from public lands. Residents participating in this program learn horsemanship skills, including how to care for, handle, and train wild horses for adoption. This program not only provides valuable vocational training but also fosters patience, responsibility, and personal growth. By working with the horses, residents gain unique skills and experiences that can benefit them both personally and professionally upon release.

CENTRAL UNIT:
Canine Assistance Rehabilitation Education Services (CARES) provides residents the opportunity to learn how to train service dogs. Following training, the dogs are then placed with disabled individuals. While providing a valuable service to the community, the residents learn patience, responsibility, leadership skills, social skills and communication skills.

EAST UNIT:
Through the Lucky Dog program, dogs receive training from residents who teach the dogs basic obedience commands such as sit, lie down and stay. The dogs are house broken, crate trained and are taught to walk on a leash. This is a second chance for the lucky dogs that would likely…