Lansing Correctional Facility
The Lansing Correctional Facility (LCF) is a Kansas state prison operated by the Kansas Department of Corrections . LCF is located in Lansing in Leavenworth County . LCF, along with Leavenworth Federal Prison , the United States Disciplinary Barracks and the Midwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility in Fort Leavenworth, is one of the four major penal institutions that are an important economic factor in the Leavenworth area.
history
The prison was formerly called the Kansas State Penitentiary (KSP) and was established in the 1860s. In 1990 the name was changed to Lansing Correctional Facility. The cell blocks were completed in 1867 and the first prisoners were admitted in July 1868. Oklahoma inmates were housed here between 1889 and 1909 . No new inmates were admitted in 1896 as a smallpox epidemic spread across Kansas.
Facilities
LCF includes various facilities with different security levels.
death penalty
Until 1965, delinquents sentenced to death by federal, state, or military courts were hanged in Lansing . In 1994 the death penalty was reintroduced in Kansas and decided to only execute lethal injection . No executions were carried out after the death penalty was reintroduced (status:?). Lansing is the only prison in Kansas' intended for this.
Known inmates
- Perry Smith and Dick Hickock were convicted of the murder of four members of the Clutter family in 1959 and hanged in Lansing in 1965. By Truman Capote's book In Cold Blood , this case became world famous.
- Lowell Lee Andrews , murdered his parents and was later executed.
- George York and James Latham, killers and the last people to be executed in Kansas.
- Rev. Tom Bird , murdered his wife.
- Alvin Francis "Creepy Karpis" Karpowicz met Fred Barker in this prison and founded the Barker-Karpis Gang with him .
- Harvey Bailey , sidekick of the legendary Machine Gun Kelly .
- Serial killer Richard Grissom Jr. , convicted of triple feminicide in 1990.
- Serial killer Francis Donald Nemechek , who murdered four women and a toddler.
- Scott Roeder , convicted of the murder of doctor George Tiller in May 2009.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ State of Kansas: Lansing Correctional Facility History . Archived from the original on December 6, 2006. Retrieved December 12, 2006.
- ^ Kansas Coalition Against the Death Penalty: Kansas Law . Archived from the original on February 6, 2002. 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 notice. Retrieved December 12, 2006.
