State officials say the state’s sexual predator treatment program is over capacity and needs more funding.

Robert Siedlecki, head of the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, said Thursday that the department is seeking more than $2 million to remodel a building at Larned State Hospital.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports there are 214 people in the program. The building that houses the residents at Larned has 191 beds.

The program indefinitely holds convicted sex offenders past their prison sentences if they have been legally committed because they are considered a threat to the community.

The SRS wants to provide space for 34 more people at Larned. It also wants to house eight people at Parsons State Hospital who are preparing for a possible return to society.