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| Some young offenders sent out of Sedgwick County after boys ranch closes |
| By kansas.com- Deb Gruver |
| Published: 08/19/2014 |
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Some boys who would have been candidates for the closed Judge Riddel Boys Ranch are instead going to youth residential centers in Topeka, Junction City, Dodge City and Pittsburg, farther away from their families. Distance from family is one of the reasons Sedgwick County Commissioners Karl Peterjohn and Richard Ranzau opposed closing the ranch, a state program that the county was subsidizing. The county said it cost about $200 a day per boy to house and provide programming aimed at turning clients’ lives around. The state paid $126 per day per boy. The ranch stopped taking clients in May. Mark Masterson, director of the county’s corrections department, recently gave commissioners information about where boys have landed so far. Read More. |
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