LARNED — A new carpentry vocational program for offenders at the Larned Correctional Mental Health Facility (LCMHF) is one of several innovations being made possible by a partnership with Barton Community College and LCMHF. As a team, Barton and the Kansas Department of Corrections are providing offenders the opportunity to improve their chance for success upon release through vocational and educational programming while incarcerated. Barton Community College purchased a metal building for LCMHF to house a new carpentry vocational program. LCMHF purchased materials to complete the interior of the building and has provided the staff and offender labor to construct the building.