EDMONTON — Alberta will spend $23 million to renovate a section of Edmonton’s jail for young offenders to create an addictions treatment facility, more than doubling the province’s capacity to treat youth with addictions.

The Alberta government is expected to make the announcement Tuesday.

The facility will be called the Northern Alberta Recovery Centre and will be housed at the Edmonton Young Offenders Centre. It will create 105 new youth addictions treatment beds. At present, there are 70 beds for youth with addictions in Alberta, and the addition of the new beds — expected to come online in 2026 — will bring the total to 175.