Larned State Correctional Facility
Larned, KS 67550-0280
LSCF History
The Larned State Correctional Facility (LSCF) was built in response to a 1989 federal court order which directed the KDOC to meet the long-term needs of mentally ill residents. Construction of the 150-bed facility began on the grounds of the Larned State Hospital (LSH) in 1991 and the facility was dedicated in December of that same year. The facility received its first inmates on January 22, 1992.
The name of the facility was officially changed on April 27, 2023 from Larned Correctional Mental Health Facility to the Larned State Correctional Facility.
Overview
The facility provides programs that have been shown to reduce recidivism in the target population.
LSCF consists of a medium-security central unit with 310 beds and a minimum-security South Unit with 304 beds.
As with other facilities under the management of the Secretary of Corrections, education, health services and food services are provided through contracts.
Programs
While services for medical and education are contracted for through private vendors, the facility’s food service is supported by the Larned State Hospital. However staffing at LSCF is contractual. Meals are prepared at the state hospital kitchen and transported to the LSCF for serving to the Central Unit inmates. South Unit inmates eat their meals under LSCF staff supervision at the state hospital cafeteria.
Chaplaincy Services
The facility provides opportunities for inmates to practice their respective religious faiths. A full-time chaplain is the liaison for religious services and volunteers in the community.
Reeentry
Reentry services provide programming, such as Thinking for a Change courses and support for offenders based on the inmate’s specific risk and need areas as defined by screening and offender behavior.
Private Industries
Inmate employee positions are available in non-prison based industries programs for minimum-custody West Unit inmates. These programs are designed to help inmates learn and practice the pro-social skills and good work habits required to be self-sufficient, productive citizens ready to practice responsible crime-free behavior.
Once an resident is eligible for visiting privileges, the resident is responsible for ensuring that his visitors receive the necessary paperwork to register as visitors. For more information, please review IMPP 10-113D: Offender Visitation.
Holiday Visitation
Information about visiting during holidays
Inmate visitation at Kansas correctional facilities will be provided on the following four state holidays: Christmas Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July and Thanksgiving Day. If either Christmas Day or the Fourth of July holiday falls on a Saturday or a Sunday, or other day where a facility has regularly scheduled visitation, the holiday will be incorporated within the regular visitation schedule and an additional visitation day will NOT be scheduled.
Inmate visitation will NOT be provided on the following state holidays, unless the holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday, or other day where the facility has regularly scheduled visitation: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day and the day after Thanksgiving.
Warden
Warden Tim Easley
Tim Easley was appointed warden of Larned Correctional Mental Health Facility (LCMHF) by KDOC Secretary Jeff Zmuda in March 2020. The name of the facility changed on April 27, 2023 to Larned State Correctional Facility.
Previously, Easley had been LCMHF’s deputy warden. Since joining KDOC as a corrections officer in 1996, Easley also has held the positions of sergeant and EAI agent.