KS DOC – Wichita Work Release Facility (WWRF)

KS DOC – Wichita Work Release Facility (WWRF) basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 316-265-5211

This facility is for adult inmates.

The inmates housed at Wichita Work Release Facility located at 401 S Emporia St in Wichita, KS are placed according to their custody level (determined by a number of factors including the past criminal history and the length of their sentence). There are ample educational and vocational training programs for all inmates, especially ones that show a willingness to learn new things that will prepare them for a better life when they are released. The mission is to promote and prepare the offender to leave in better shape than when they arrived, giving them the best chance to never come back and thus lower the state's recidivism rate.

The WWRF, a satellite unit of the Winfield Correctional Facility, is an all-male, minimum-custody state prison located in Wichita in south-central Kansas. The purpose of the work release program is to prepare selected inmates for release and to assist them in making a successful transition from the institutional environment back into free society. Work release offers a unique opportunity to realize correctional objectives while permitting the participants to leave confinement and work in the community under close supervision and structure.

Participating inmates must maintain full-time employment in the community. From their wages, the inmates must pay a room and board fee, transportation expenses, court costs, restitution, dependent support and other outstanding debts. They also must accumulate savings prior to release from custody. At the same time, participants are responsible for their own medical and dental expenses and maintenance of their room as well as general use areas of the facility.

At the end of 2013, capacity was 250 minimum-custody male inmates.

visitation Info

KS DOC – Wichita Work Release Facility (WWRF) – Visitation

Visitation at WWRF is from 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sunday, and the following four holidays:

Christmas Day       Memorial Day       Fourth of July       Thanksgiving Day

If either Christmas Day or the Fourth of July holiday falls on a Saturday or a Sunday or other day where a facility has regularly scheduled visitation, the holiday will be incorporated within the regular visitation schedule and an additional visitation day will NOT be scheduled.