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Two men were moved from the Barton County Jail to the El Dorado Correctional Facility this week to serve prison sentences with the Kansas Department of Corrections (KDOC).
Shannon Hoyt Larson, 34, and Kristopher Levimartin Chappell, 39, were placed in the prison’s Reception and Diagnostic Unit (RDU) on Monday, Dec. 14. All male offenders sentenced to the custody of the Secretary of Corrections are received and processed through the El Dorado facility’s RDU, where they attend orientation and are assigned to a custody classification, appropriate programs and a permanent housing assignment.