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Kansas would renovate and reopen a corrections camp in the southeastern part of the state to help ease prison crowding under Gov. Sam Brownback's proposed budget.
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January 12, 2012

Kansas would renovate and reopen a corrections camp in the southeastern part of the state to help ease prison crowding under Gov. Sam Brownback's proposed budget.

Brownback proposed Thursday that the state spend $1.7 million in
revenues generated from state-owned casinos to renovate the former
Labette Correctional Conservation Camp in Oswego.

The Department of Corrections closed its minimum-security camp
in 2009 because of budget constraints. It would reopen as a
medium-security facility next year.

It would house 232 geriatric male inmates and 30
minimum-security male inmates.

Brownback also is proposing that the state spend $2.2 million in
tax dollars on the reopened camp during the fiscal year that begins
July 1.
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