The Topeka Capital-Journal has obtained budgetary documents which the Brownback administration sought to suppress.
The documents show the implications of the Sunflower State’s potential 5-percent budget cut. If the cuts go through, they could include $17 million in spending reductions for prisons and a loss of nearly $7 million for children and family programs.
For the Department of Corrections, that would mean slashing $6 million from community corrections, almost $2 million from juvenile services, and another $2.5 million from mental health, and job and housing services. It would also eliminate the department’s mentoring, victim service and batterer intervention programs. Meanwhile, the Department for Children and Families would be forced to close service centers and reduce grants.
