Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 46, November 14, 2024
Section 44-2-103 - Trafficking in contraband(a) A person, including an employee, inmate, visitor, or volunteer shall not, without the consent of the warden: (1) introduce or attempt to introduce any item into or upon the grounds of a correctional facility; (2) take, send, or attempt to take or send any item from any correctional facility; (3) possess any item while in any correctional facility; or (4) distribute any item within a correctional facility. (b) "Any item," as used in subsection (a), shall include but not be limited to the following: (1) Guns or firearms of any type, or the components, diagrams, or plans thereof; (2) ammunition, explosives, or the diagrams, formulas or plans thereof; (3) knives, tools, and materials such as sandpaper, whet stones or similar items used to make such knives or tools; (4) hazardous or poisonous chemicals, flammable liquids and gases or formulas thereof; (5) escape paraphernalia such as ropes, grappling hooks, hacksaw blades, jewelers' wire, bar spreaders, maps, lock picks, handcuff keys, or similar devices which could be used to aid an escape; (6) identification documents or individual photographs of the inmate of the style suitable for the production of identification documents; (7) documents, plans, diagrams, or schematics that refer to secure electrical systems, escape alarms, overhead lighting, facility power supply, gate operations, body alarms, radio communications, and similar systems; (8) narcotics or other controlled substances, including any synthetic narcotic, drug, stimulant, sleeping pill, barbiturate, or medicine, prescription or non-prescription, which was not dispensed or approved by the facility health authority. Medicines dispensed or approved by the health authority shall be considered contraband if not consumed or utilized in the manner prescribed; (9) intoxicants, including but not limited to liquor or alcoholic beverages; (10) currency, in the form of paper, checks, money orders, coins, stamps or similar instruments with monetary value; (11) hypodermic needles, hypodermic syringes, nasal inhalers or other devices or any component thereof which could be used to inject substances into the body; (13) cameras, recording devices, one or two-way transmitting devices, and similar devices and components thereof, including tapes, batteries, and film; or (14) letters, notes, books, or other written communications. Kan. Admin. Regs. § 44-2-103
Authorized by and implementing K.S.A. 1992 Supp. 75-5210; effective July 5, 1993.