Kansas Legislature Approves Budget For New 240-Bed Addiction Treatment Minimum Security Prison

On April 26, 2021, Kansas Governor Laura Kelly signed the 2022 state budget that includes a provision to create a 240-bed minimum security prison to provide inmate addiction treatment. The budget provided $6 million to convert a building at the Lansing Correctional Facility for the new addiction treatment prison. Some of the funding will also be used to renovate a building at the Winfield Correctional facility for geriatric inmates. No information is available regarding the timeline for building or opening the addiction treatment facility. Information about what treatment will be offered at the facility, or how treatment costs will . . .