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KS DOC – Larned Correctional Mental Health Facility (LCMHF) basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 620-285-6249
This facility is for adult inmates.
The inmates housed at Larned Correctional Mental Facility located at 1318 KS-264 in Larned, KS are placed according to their custody level (determined by a number of factors including the past criminal history and the length of their sentence). There are ample educational and vocational training programs for all inmates, especially ones that show a willingness to learn new things that will prepare them for a better life when they are released. The mission is to promote and prepare the offender to leave in better shape than when they arrived, giving them the best chance to never come back and thus lower the state's recidivism rate.
LCMHF is a state prison that specializes in mental health treatment of inmates and houses maximum to minimum security inmates who suffer from severe and persistent mental illness. All offenders at this institution are adult males, currently, it can house approximately 430 inmates. Inmates at this facility were often assigned to be here by mental health staff who performed an examination at another facility. Inmates with mental health disorders often require a different approach to incarceration and are considered a high risk when housed at a typical institution. Inmates who are in the minimum custody West Unit can participate in work programs that help the offender acquire healthy work skills and habits. A full-time chaplain is also available to an inmate, and reentry programs help prepare offenders for their inevitable release.
LCMHF houses the most severely and persistently mentally ill adult male inmates within the Kansas Department of Corrections (KDOC), along with a significant number of inmates with borderline personality disorders or a conduct disorder which makes them an unacceptable risk for housing in another facility.
LCMHF consists of a maximum-security central unit with 150 beds and a minimum-security West Unit with 288 work detail beds. The facility’s Central Unit serves as a transitional unit for inmates who are not able to function in the general population of a traditional correctional institution for mental health reasons, but are not in need of psychiatric hospitalization. Inmates are assigned to this facility by mental health staff at other correctional institutions.
In addition, 115 beds are reserved for KDOC offenders housed in the Isaac Ray Building on the Larned State Hospital campus. There, inmates are provided mental health care and treatment in either the acute care or the residential rehabilitation program (RRP). The purpose of RRP is to provide psychiatric rehabilitation and vocational services to adult males referred from the KDOC with the intent of preparing these individuals for successful reintegration into the community or back into KDOC services as determined on an individual basis.
The purpose of the facility’s West Unit is to provide facility support and community work programs for minimum-custody inmates. The West Unit also houses inmates who are admitted to the Chemical Dependency Recovery Program (CDRP).
visitation Info
KS DOC – Larned Correctional Mental Health Facility (LCMHF) – Visitation
Once an inmate is eligible for visiting privileges, the inmate is responsible for ensuring that his visitors receive the necessary paperwork to register as visitors.
Visitation Days & Hours
Visiting hours are from 8:30 am to 3:00 pm on Saturdays, Sundays, and the following holidays: Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. Visitors will not be allowed into the facility after 2:00 p.m.
- Offenders in administrative or disciplinary segregation may have (1), one‐hour, non‐contact visit per week on Saturday or Sunday.
