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| Kansas to move more than 100 psychiatric hospital inmates |
| By wibw.com |
| Published: 04/11/2016 |
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The state of Kansas is moving more than 100 mental health inmates from a state psychiatric hospital in Topeka to several facilities run by multiple agencies in an effort to relieve a staffing shortage. The Wichita Eagle reports that the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services will transfer 60 mental health inmates from special units at Larned State Hospital to a Kansas Department of Corrections facility on the same campus, starting Monday. A Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services spokeswoman says the inmates were in a unit at the hospital as part of a 2006 agreement meant to alleviate overcrowding at the adjacent correctional facility. Read More. |
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