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.