El Dorado Correctional Facility

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El Dorado Correctional Facility
El Dorado Correctional Facility
Location1737 SE US Highway 54
El Dorado, Kansas
StatusOpen
Security class Maximum
Capacity1,511
Opened1991
Managed by Kansas Department of Corrections
Warden Tommy Williams

The El Dorado Correctional Facility (abbreviated EDCF) is a maximum security prison located east of the city of El Dorado in rural Prospect Township, Butler County, Kansas, United States.

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EDCF is the location of the Kansas Department of Corrections (KDOC) Reception and Diagnostic Unit (RDU), which processes every male inmate when they are received into custody. RDU helps determine the inmate's custody level, mental health classification, and educational program needs before he is assigned to a facility.

EDCF has two general population cellhouses and one medium security dormitory. EDCF is administratively linked to two minimum security units, formerly "honor camps", one in El Dorado and one in Toronto, Kansas. In 2009, the announcement was made that the state would be closing both minimum security units, due to budget constraints. As of 2015, medium and minimum security units in Oswego were administratively part of EDCF.

EDCF also houses male inmates sentenced to death by Kansas courts. There is no specific part of the prison that is the "death row". Inmates sentenced to death are housed in administrative segregation ("AdSeg"). The state currently has nine inmates on death row, all male, with eight of them at El Dorado. [1] Executions, however, take place at the Lansing Correctional Facility (LCF) in Lansing. The state has not had an execution since June 22, 1965, when spree killers George York and James Latham were hanged there.

History

The El Dorado Correctional Facility was established in 1991. It was built in response to a federal mandate to ease over-crowding at the state's other two maximum security prisons. [2] Expansion in 2001 brought two new general population cellhouses. The facility is expected to expand in the future.

The state chose El Dorado to house most male condemned prisoners as they wanted different employees to supervise them for the majority of the time from the ones who would be implementing capital punishment. [3]

The first escape in facility history occurred on October 28, 2007. Inmates Jesse Bell and Steven Ford escaped with the assistance of former corrections officer, Amber Goff. [4] The three were apprehended in Grants, New Mexico, less than three days later. Bell and Ford were arrested in an apartment complex parking lot. Goff was found asleep in the driver's seat of a car parked in the driveway of a nearby vacant Grants home; a stolen handgun was found under a newspaper next to her. [5]

Circa 2017, the state has considered relocating executions from the Lansing Correctional Facility to the El Dorado Correctional Facility. [6]

Notable inmates

Inmate NameRegister NumberStatusDetails
Dennis Rader 0083707 [7] Serving 10 life sentences without parole. [8] Serial killer also known as the "BTK Killer" who murdered 10 people between 1974-1991. [9] [10] [11]

Former Inmates

Inmate NameStatusDetails
Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. Sentenced to death in 2015. [12] [13] Died in May of 2021. [14] American white supremacist who committed the Overland Park Jewish Community Center shooting in 2014, in which he murdered three people. [15] [16]

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