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| Sedgwick County budget proposal includes funds to reopen boys ranch, options |
| By kansas.com- Shelby Reynolds |
| Published: 06/10/2015 |
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Sedgwick County manager William Buchanan presented a proposed $422 million 2016 budget Tuesday that includes money to treat juvenile offenders inside the county. The proposal includes $1.9 million for either reopening the Judge Riddel Boys Ranch or for another provider to operate a youth residential center. It also offers an alternative program for youth offenders in light of changing juvenile justice policies from the Kansas Department of Corrections and the 2016 Legislature. With the alternative program, Buchanan said, the county would hire a couple of employees or a small team to deliver behavioral programs for all correctional youths in Sedgwick County. It would cost about $1.4 million less than reopening the boys ranch, which the county closed last year. An alternative program “ensures that (one person) gets the appropriate amount of dosage and intensity different than what (another person) gets,” Buchanan said after the meeting. “You address each issue appropriately, and not one size fits all.” Read More. |
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