TOPEKA — The state plans to close a juvenile correctional facility in western Kansas in March.
The Kansas Department of Corrections earlier this year announced plans to close the Larned Juvenile Correctional Facility because of a declining number of youths jailed at the site. The state’s juvenile incarceration operations are to be consolidated at a complex in Topeka.
The department said in a release Thursday that it has set March 3, 2017, as the Larned facility’s final date of operation.
Secretary of Corrections Joe Norwood says many staff members are transferring to nearby correctional facilities and others will work for the Larned State Hospital.
Norwood says juveniles will stay at the Larned facility until Jan. 23.
