{"id":31181,"date":"2016-08-15T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/ketchikan-youth-detention-facility-to-close-due-to-budget\/"},"modified":"2016-08-15T08:00:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T15:00:42","slug":"ketchikan-youth-detention-facility-to-close-due-to-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/ketchikan-youth-detention-facility-to-close-due-to-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Ketchikan youth detention facility to close due to budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KETCHIKAN \u2014 <\/strong>A youth detention center in Ketchikan is closing due to the state\u2019s ongoing budget problems and a low residency rate.<\/p>\n<p>The Ketchikan Daily News reported that over the past decade the Ketchikan Regional Youth Facility has had an average daily population of four youths. The 10-bed facility will cease operations Sept. 15.<\/p>\n<p>Alaska Department of Health and Social Services Commissioner Valerie Davidson wrote in a letter that the department is considering re-purposing the facility as an unlocked behavioral health residential program, but funding for such a program has not been found.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Ketchikan owns the land the facility is on and ownership of the building will fall to the city after it closes.<\/p>\n<p>The facility opened in 2002 and serves Ketchikan, Saxman, Prince of Wales Island, Wrangell, Petersburg, Kake, Hyder and Metlakatla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KETCHIKAN \u2014 A youth detention center in Ketchikan is closing due to the state\u2019s ongoing budget problems and a low residency rate. The Ketchikan Daily <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/\">News<\/a> reported that over the past decade the Ketchikan Regional Youth Facility has had an average daily population of four youths. The 10-bed facility will cease operations Sept. 15. Alaska [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-31181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31181"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=31181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}