El Dorado Correctional Facility

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The El Dorado Correctional Facility , or EDCF, is a maximum security penal facility in Prospect Township in Butler County , Kansas, east of the city of El Dorado .

The EDCF houses the Reception and Diagnostic Unit (RDU) of the Kansas Prison Authority. Inmates can be examined for their mental state here. It is the largest prison for long-serving convicts in Kansas. There are over 350 beds in three cell blocks. In these cell blocks, inmates are allowed to leave the cell for one hour a day. All of Kansas' death row inmates are in the EDCF. The executions will be carried out at the Lansing Correctional Facility in Lansing, Kansas .

Opened in 1991, the El Dorado Correctional Facility was built to address the overcrowding problem in Kansas' prisons and is the newest penitentiary in Kansas. It is the third largest prison in terms of the number of inmates. Extension buildings are planned. The first escape from prison succeeded in 2007. Jesse Bell and Steven Ford escaped with the assistance of former prison worker Amber Goff. She was arrested three days later in Grants, New Mexico.

Known inmates

  • The Carr brothers who murdered five people around 2000 (known as the Wichita massacre)
  • Michael Marsh, whose appeals nearly brought down the death penalty in Kansas
  • Dennis Rader , the so-called BTK killer, who murdered ten people between 1974 and 1991 and was only caught in 2005
  • Justin Thurber, raped and murdered Jodi LeAnn Sanderholm in Arkansas City in 2007 , sentenced to death.
  • John Edward Robinson (born 1943) serial killer
  • Michael Jones, killed his son Adrian in 2015 and fed the corpse to pigs

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,346851,00.html
  2. ↑ http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/31/national/main3436048.shtml
  3. ↑ " RADER, DENNIS L ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note ." Kansas Department of Corrections , Retrieved November 27, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.doc.ks.gov

Coordinates: 37 ° 48 ′ 15 "  N , 96 ° 48 ′ 59"  W.