KDOC Releases for Hodgeman Cases
A Hodgeman County court may commit a sentenced person to KDOC, but the county does not determine the prison assignment. The KDOC facilities map lists the state institutions and confirms the statewide structure. Once KDOC accepts custody, the county jail’s release transaction documents a transfer out of local custody. It is not the later prison-release record.
State prison release can begin community supervision. Parole chiefly applies to eligible older or indeterminate sentences after action by the Kansas Prisoner Review Board. Postrelease supervision generally follows the prison portion of a guidelines sentence. Conditional release is a separate statutory mechanism. Discharge means the sentence or supervision obligation has ended. A person can therefore be out of a KDOC prison and still remain under KDOC authority.
| KDOC status event | Practical meaning | Source to check |
|---|---|---|
| Incarcerated | The person remains in a KDOC placement | KASPER and KDOC |
| Parole or postrelease | Prison custody ended, but supervision continues | KASPER and assigned parole office |
| Conditional release | A statutory release stage may apply | KASPER, KDOC, and governing sentence law |
| Discharged | The correctional obligation shown by KDOC ended | KASPER and an official KDOC record |
KASPER State Release Search
The Kansas Adult Supervised Population Electronic Repository, known as KASPER, is the public first check for current and former KDOC offenders. Search the name and use the KDOC number when it is known. Compare identity details before opening a record. Then preserve the status and every date label exactly as displayed.
- Open KASPER and search by the available name or identifying field. A KDOC number gives the strongest direct match.
- Compare the returned identity details. Do not select a same-name record from the name alone.
- Read the custody or supervision status and the listed location. Note the date and time of the search.
- Copy each date label as written. A parole-eligibility, conditional-release, maximum, postrelease, or discharge date has its own meaning.
- For a date or status needed in a legal process, ask KDOC for records clarification and cite the KDOC number and sentencing case.
The official KDOC facility and parole map was captured successfully for the facility research:
The statewide map reinforces a key local point: Hodgeman County has no KDOC adult prison, so the person’s actual placement and release path must be read from the state record.
KDOC Release Dates Need Context
KASPER should not be reduced to one promised “release date.” Kansas correctional records can display more than one date because sentence law and status differ. A projected or tentative date may change. A parole-eligibility date is not a grant. A maximum or discharge date may concern the full sentence rather than the day prison custody ends. If the record does not show a future date, do not calculate one and present it as KDOC’s result.
The sentencing journal entry supplies the judicial sentence. KDOC performs the executive calculation using the governing law, jail credit, sentence structure, and qualifying correctional credits. Changes can follow a corrected court order, revised jail credit, disciplinary credit action, program credit, aggregation of sentences, appeal, detainer resolution, or a return after violation. Offense dates matter because Kansas statutes have changed over time.
Kansas does not support one rule that every state prisoner serves the same share of a sentence. The common 85-percent shorthand reflects a possible 15-percent good-time ceiling for some covered determinate sentences, not a universal release promise. Other severity levels, sentence dates, older indeterminate cases, and special offenses can use different rules. KDOC’s good-time overview gives the agency framework, while K.S.A. 21-6821 and related provisions govern covered credits. K.S.A. 22-3717 addresses parole, conditional release, and postrelease categories. Apply the version tied to the offense and sentence rather than today’s text by itself.
- Projected date
- An administrative estimate that can change before release.
- Parole eligibility
- The point at which an eligible case may be considered, not a release promise.
- Postrelease supervision
- A supervised period after the prison part of many guidelines sentences.
- Discharge
- The end of the correctional obligation, which may occur well after prison release.
KDOC Discharge Record Requests
KASPER is informational. When a status or date must be established through an agency record, use KDOC’s current designated open-records route and identify the KDOC number. Ask for an existing release or discharge record, or for clarification of the public fields. Do not ask the records custodian to predict an outcome or perform a new sentence calculation.
A focused request should include the full name, KDOC number, Hodgeman County case number, and the precise event or date label at issue. The court record and KDOC record serve different roles. The court can provide the sentencing journal entry and later sentence orders. KDOC can explain its own custody, supervision, and computation record. Kansas Open Records Act exemptions may require redaction or limit access to some material.
The Hodgeman County release search and records overview separates the county jail, court, state, federal, and immigration paths. If the local sheriff says a person was committed to KDOC, preserve the county transfer time and begin a new state-custody timeline rather than calling the transfer a community release.
Hodgeman KDOC Supervision Routing
KDOC assigns Hodgeman County to the Garden City Parole Office in its South Region. The published office is at 816 N. Campus Drive, Suite 500, Garden City, KS 67846, and the phone number is 620-272-3879. The current KDOC table controls because regional assignments can change. Hodgeman cases should not be routed to Dodge City merely because that office may sound closer or appear in another county group.
Garden City Parole Office
816 N. Campus Drive, Suite 500
Garden City, KS 67846
Phone: 620-272-3879
South Region office serving Hodgeman County
The office can confirm public-facing routing, but staff may limit details about an individual case. KASPER remains the first public check. A supervising location can help distinguish community supervision from final discharge. An alleged absconder or a person returned on a warrant is not successfully discharged, so verify a new status with KDOC and the issuing authority.
Probation in the Hodgeman County District Court should not be recast as KDOC parole. Probation is generally a court sentence served in the community instead of prison. Parole and postrelease follow a state correctional sentence under different Kansas rules. If KASPER shows no KDOC connection, inspect the sentencing journal entry and later district-court docket activity before calling the regional parole office.
KDOC Parole Decisions and Release
The Kansas Prisoner Review Board performs parole functions for eligible cases. Its public schedules or comment calendars are planning records, not lists of people guaranteed to leave prison. A published action may grant, pass, continue, deny, defer, rescind, or apply another board term. Use the legend that accompanies the live publication.
Even a favorable action may leave an effective date, approved plan, program need, detainer, or later board step. Match the board item to KASPER and the Hodgeman sentencing case. Keep the board-action date separate from the actual physical release date and the start of community supervision.
Note: A Hodgeman County jail departure, a KDOC prison release, and a final state discharge are three different events and should keep separate sources and dates.