El Dorado Correctional Facility, Maximum security prison in El Dorado, Kansas, US
El Dorado Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison in El Dorado, Kansas, with several buildings for different security levels. The grounds hold two general population cell houses, a medium security dormitory, and administrative areas in Butler County.
The prison opened in 1991 after a federal mandate required Kansas to reduce overcrowding in other facilities. Construction of this institution cost around 58 million dollars and expanded the state prison system capacity significantly.
The facility operates a reception and diagnostic unit where newly arriving inmates spend their first weeks in the prison system. There they pass through a phase of classification and receive assignments for work or education programs before transferring to other institutions.
All male inmates entering the Kansas prison system pass through the reception and diagnostic unit for processing. This phase determines their security classification and assigns them programs before they receive their final placement.
Eight of the nine death row prisoners in Kansas spend their time here in administrative segregation. Executions do not take place at this location, though, and are instead carried out at Lansing Correctional Facility.
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