Sedgwick
County Department of Corrections
Residential & Service Center
622 E. Central |
Wichita, KS 67202-1062
316-660-9500 |
Fax 316-383-7955
Donna Hajjar, Administrator
The Residential Center located at 623 E.
Elm is a highly-structured 120 bed coed residential facility that
emphasizes intense supervision and accountability and that monitors the
offender's daily activities in the community and in treatment. All
residents are expected to maintain full-time employment, placement in
educational/vocational programming in the community, or they are expected to
be in treatment. Emphasis is placed on mastering daily living skills,
budgeting of personal income, completing court ordered requirements and
preparing for eventual re-entry into community living. An offender's
average length of stay at the Residential Center is 110 days.
The Service Center located at 622 E.
Central provides
supervision, case management and intervention services to assigned offenders
from the Residential Center and the Intensive Supervision
Program. Services are individualized based on the needs of the
offender and are designed to reduce the risk of their reoffending and/of
violating the terms of probation and being sent to prison. Services
include outpatient substance abuse treatment, job preparation/job seek,
cognitive skills, mental health assessments and individual and group
counseling to improve anger management and problem solving skills.
Typical Adult Client Profile
Typical adult client profile in the Sedgwick County Department of
Corrections are those offenders whose crimes are burglary, possession of cocaine, forgery
and/or theft.
Approximately 75% of our clientele are male, of which 58% are
Caucasian. The majority of clients are single with an average age in the mid-20's. Clients
usually have committed prior offenses and approximately half of our offenders have a high
school education.
Offenders are normally received as a result of a revocation hearing
from Adult Probation or during sentencing for a new crime.
Sedgwick County Youth
Aftercare Program (SCYP)
A 20-bed residential facility
for male juvenile offenders leaving state-operated juvenile correctional
facilities. The purpose of the program is to assist juveniles prepare for
independent living. Youth apply to come to the program and receive
assistance in finding and maintaining jobs, saving money and learning to
take care of themselves in a supervised setting for 3 to 6 months.
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