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Sedgwick County warns KDOC funding formula will cut services, risk more prison sentences
Summary
County corrections leaders told Wichita and county elected officials that a proposed KDOC funding formula would reduce Sedgwick County’s allocation about 38% over three years, threaten behavioral health programs and about 20 positions, and could push more felony cases back into prison rather than community supervision.
Sedgwick County corrections leaders told city and county elected officials on Oct. 29 that a proposed Kansas Department of Corrections funding formula would sharply reduce local community-corrections funding and jeopardize programs used to supervise high‑risk felony offenders in the community.
"Doing this work with 40% less budget will be nearly impossible," Laurie Gibbs, deputy director of adult programs for Sedgwick County Department of Corrections, said in the City Hall en banc. Gibbs described clients supervised by county community corrections as among the state’s most serious offenders — often addicted, mentally ill or homeless — and said the office uses risk‑and‑needs assessments, intensive supervision, residential placement and specialty courts to try to reduce…
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