A strong argument against privatizing the state’s prison system a couple years back was the lack of accountability, especially when profit is a motive to the organizational structure.
The same doubts are cropping up with the state’s foster care system that was privatized almost 20 years ago to two agencies, KVC Behavioral Healthcare of Olathe, and St. Francis Community Services based out of Salina. Locally, TFI Family Services is a subcontractor with KVC.
Kansas was the first in nation to outsource foster care to private industry. In all those years since, only a…
