KS DOC – Norton Correctional Facility (NCF)

KS DOC – Norton Correctional Facility (NCF) basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 785-877-3389

This facility is for adult inmates.

The inmates housed at Norton Correctional located at 11130 Road E4 in Norton, 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 NCF is a medium custody state prison with an approximate capacity of 835 adult male inmates. Capacity at the main-custody compound was 707 adult male inmates, with 539 medium-security beds and 168 minimum-security beds. NCF’s satellite unit at Stockton’s had a capacity of 128 minimum-security beds.

NCF currently has Vocational Education programs including Building Maintenance, Carpentry, and Medium Vocations [manufacturing skills], available. Staff from Colby Community College and through Greenbush offer Academic Education classes to inmates that include reading, writing, science, and math. Learned skills are applied to testing for their GED.

Inmates also gain employment skills and a strong work ethic through participation in community service work, and NCF's prison-based and non-prison based private industries programs including Wilkens at Stockton, KS.

NCF also offers inmate programs which include physical and Behavioral Health services, and inmate self-help programs such as Alcoholics and Narcotics Anonymous.

RADAC is also a program offered at NCF for minimum and medium custody offenders. RADAC is a Substance Abuse Program. This 39 session Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for Substance Abuse is a curriculum designed for individuals who are moderate to high need in the area of substance abuse. The class is taught by RADAC Staff. This class relies on a cognitive-behavioral approach to teach participants strategies for avoiding substance abuse. There are six modules that consist of Motivational Engagement, Cognitive Restructuring, Emotional Regulation, Social Skills, Program Solving, and Relapse Prevention.

visitation Info

KS DOC – Norton Correctional Facility (NCF) – Visitation

Regular visiting hours are 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.on Saturdays and Sundays; and Memorial Day, July 4^th, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Visitors shall not be processed in for a visit after 2:00 p.m.

Visitors may only appear on one inmate's visiting list except when visitor and more than one inmate are members of the same immediate family. Immediate family is defined as parents, step-parents, siblings, spouses of siblings, half-siblings, step-siblings, children, spouses of children, step-children, grandchildren, step-grandchildren, spouse, parents of spouse, grandparents, or any person who has filled the role of parent de facto.

Coats, jackets, hats and other seasonal outer wear shall be hung on hangers provided in the visiting area. Specific types of clothing are not considered appropriate for prison visitation and include, but are not limited to:

a. See-through blouses, shirts or skirts;
b. Tank tops and/or Halter tops;
c. Dresses/blouses with revealing, low-cut necklines;
d. Braless attire;
e. Dresses or skirts split at the front, back or sides;
f. Bare feet; and,
g. Shorts, Bermuda shorts, or cut-offs (children under 10 years of age may wear appropriate shorts during summer months)

* NCF reserves the right to deny access to visitors considered by the shift supervisor to be inappropriately attired.

The only items visitors may bring into the visiting area are:

a. Money for vending machines and food (maximum amount of $30.00);
b. Photo identification;
c. Issued Gatehouse locker key;
d. Infant carrier;
e. One (1) Diaper bag containing:

• three (3) diapers, (cloth or disposable) and reasonable amounts of extra baby clothing;
• one (1) wet wipes dispenser.
• one (1) 1 tube of diaper rash ointment or baby lotion; and,
• two (2) infant toys/rattles;
• one (1) infant blanket;
• one (1) baby or toddler cereal bowl (with baby food and utensils);
• two (2) infant bottles (with milk or juice) and/or 2 training cups (with lids);