by
Nancy Burghart
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published
Jul 01, 2013
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last modified
Jan 30, 2026 01:36 PM
Individuals as young as ten years of age and as old as 17 years of age may be adjudicated as juvenile offenders in Kansas. State law allows the KDOC to retain custody of a juvenile offender until the age of 22 ½ in a juvenile correctional facility and the age of 23 in the community.