These are not laid out like the others and they are specially modified to accommodate services. This is also the location of the East Unit Minimum Maintenance Crew Office and Shop. "W" basement houses the compound library that is handicapped accessible. "S" basement contains the compounds "Work Recall Center" where inmate workers who leave the compound for facility work crews or private industries are screened for contraband prior to leaving or reentering the facility. "S" Is general population and has no special housing designation. "W" currently houses the "Brothers in Blue" program formally known as "IFI". All entertainment devices require use of personal sound equipment (headphones) This is only available to Level 2 and 3 inmates. at their bunks if they can purchase one from the canteen/property or in the Dayroom. Each side houses 24 inmates in 6 cubicles of 4 inmates each. Each Floor separated by a Dayroom and shower area. "S" & "W" Each share the same basic layout of 2 floors, 96 inmates housed in a dormitory setting of 48 per floor. Each inmate is required to wear a color-coded ID card at all times staff can quickly identify in which dorm an inmate lives by the ID color. The designation of "S dorm" and "X Unit" are used to reduce confusion in radio traffic. The dorms or units "R", "S", "T", "W", and "X". Known locally as "The Hill" due to its location on top of the higher terrain east of Lansing Correctional Facility main compound. The East Unit includes an 85-acre (340,000 m 2) minimum security facility. The Central Unit includes an 11-acre (45,000 m 2) maximum security facility and a 46-acre (190,000 m 2) medium security facility. LCF consists of two units with different levels of security. The Department of Corrections asked the governor to release prisoners near the end of their sentences in order provide some level of social distancing. In late April, large-scale testing began indicating over three-quarters of the inmates were infected. By 29 April, two prisoners had died of the disease. Video of the unrest reached the national media. Reports indicated the inmates were armed with edged weapons. On 9 April, inmates began to riot citing the lack of health care. (Kansas City Star ~ December 6, 1899) ĭuring the COVID-19 pandemic, the facility was unable to control spread of the virus. The new graveyard is on a ridge a quarter of a mile southeast of the prison walls, and is a beautiful place overlooking the surrounding country.
The exception is that of a stranger who died near the prison walls where he was trying to seek shelter from the cold two years ago. Everybody except one is that of a convict. In all, 130 bodies of convicts were buried in the Kansas penitentiary graveyard. The work of moving the bodies has been in progress several days, and if the weather continues pleasant, it will be completed during the week. It became necessary to use the ground and part of the clay in the graveyard for the new penitentiary brick plant. Warden Tomlinson of the Kansas penitentiary has a force of prisoners moving the "convict graveyard." This graveyard is close to the northeast corner of the main prison wall, and within a stone's throw of the women's department. The prison stopped admitting prisoners temporarily in the spring of 1896 and January 1900 as a result of the spread of smallpox in Kansas.Ī New Cemetery for the Kansas Penitentiary at Lansing The facility began housing Kansas inmates felons in July 1868 and housed felons from Oklahoma from 1889 to 1909. Construction of the cell houses was completed in 1867. The name was changed to Lansing Correctional Facility in 1990. The facility was originally known as the Kansas State Penitentiary (KSP) and was built by prison labor in the 1860s.
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