Geary County Sheriff Tony Wolf told area state legislators Monday the mental health system in Kansas is broken.

The sheriff said some people in the Geary County Detention Center would be better suited for a mental health facility. “And the way funding is for state mental health services there’s no funding there.  The institutions that they do have are over crowded, over populated, and they’re pushing that back on the counties and we have to deal with those folks here in our jail.”

Wolf and members of the Geary County Commission conveyed their concerns on the subject during a meeting with legislators.

The sheriff told them he hoped they would take a good look at the mental health aspect of the governor’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2016.