State lawmakers recommend closing the Nome Youth Facility

The Nome Youth Facility. (Photo: Laura Kraegel, KNOM)
A subcommittee for the Alaska House of Representatives has recommended closing the Nome Youth Facility. The closure would save more than a million dollars outright, but some say it would come at the expense of kids who live in western Alaska.
The Nome Youth Facility serves 28 communities surrounding Nome and Kotzebue. Last week, the House Finance Subcommittee for the Department of Health and Social Services recommended the state shut it