HUTCHINSON, Kan. - State budget problems are forcing prison
officials to drop programs designed to help inmates'
rehabilitation.
One of the programs being cut is a vocational welding course
that has been teaching job skills to inmates at the Hutchinson
Correctional Facility for 40 years.
Kansas Department of Corrections officials say other programs
such as education, sex offender treatment and drug and alcohol
rehabilitation have been dropped or reduced.
Corrections spokesman Bill Miskell says the department has had
to reduce its budget by about $23 million in this fiscal year.
Besides dropping programs, the corrections department has closed
facilities in El Dorado, Osawatomie, Toronto and Stockton, and the
Labette Correctional Conservation Camp in Oswego.
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