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| Kansas looks at converting juvenile center to predator unit |
| By newsok.com- John Hanna |
| Published: 12/21/2016 |
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is looking at converting a soon-to-close juvenile corrections center into a new unit for holding sex offenders indefinitely for treatment after prison, a top social services administrator told legislators Tuesday. Tim Keck, acting secretary of the Department for Aging and Disability Services, said the agency is working with the state fire marshal's office to determine how the juvenile facility in the western Kansas town of Larned would have to be renovated to hold sex offenders. The Department of Corrections plans to close the 152-bed juvenile facility in March. The state has more than enough space at its juvenile corrections complex in Topeka for its current population of about 230 young offenders. Also, lawmakers earlier this year overhauled the juvenile justice system to have a greater number placed in community programs. Read More. |
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