From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for May 14, 1988:

Mark Matese, director of Douglas County Community Corrections, recently had suggested to state corrections officials that if inmates of the state penitentiary were released to ease overcrowding, his program might be able to absorb some of them. On April 1, U.S. District Judge Richard Rogers of Topeka had ordered corrections officials to release 400 inmates from the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing by September. Matese said he didn’t know how many were to be released in the Douglas County area, but he thought his program could handle several inmates.