The Kansas Department of Corrections is planning to reopen a minimum security facility in the northwestern part of the state.
Budget cuts led the department to close the Stockton Correctional Facility in Rooks County in April 2009. KWCH-TV reported the Legislature has included money to operate Stockton in the new budget that takes effect in July.
Department spokesman Bill Miskell said the facility is set to reopen in September. Many of its employees had transferred to the correctional facility in Norton. Miskell expects some will be asked to move back to Stockton.
The state also closed correctional facilities last year in Osawatomie, Toronto and El Dorado. Miskell said lawmakers did not add money to reopen any of those three.
