Kansas profile
Change over time
Also see these Kansas graphs:
- total numbers rather than rates.
- Women’s prisons: Incarceration Rates | Total Population
- Men’s prisons: Incarceration Rates | Total Population
Racial disparities
See also our detailed graphs about Whites, Hispanics, Blacks, and American Indians/Native Americans in Kansas prisons and jails.
The big picture
Our other articles about Kansas
- Kansas District Court Ends Wyandotte County Jail's "Postcard-Only" Mail Policy, by ACLU, February 24, 2015
One Last Chance to Avoid Prison-Based Gerrymandering in Kansas, by Peter Wagner and Brenda Wright, Prison Policy Initiative and Dēmos, May 28, 2012.
Kansas shouldn’t use prisoners to influence redistricting, by Mary Sanchez, Kansas City Star, March 4, 2012
Counting prisoners is an issue for us all, by Mary Sanchez, Kansas City Star, February 17, 2010- How does the Kansas incarceration rate measure up in the global context?
Other resources
- Research on Kansas in our Research Clearinghouse
Events
- May 15, 2018:
Our Policy Analyst Lucius Couloute will be at the LEDA Summit on Race and Inclusion in Holland, Michigan, presenting his research on the challenges and disadvantages people face when they are released from prison. Tickets are available on LEDA’s website.
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