El Dorado Correctional Facility

El Dorado Correctional Facility

Location	1737 SE US Highway 54 El Dorado, Kansas
Status	Open
Security class	Maximum
Capacity	1,511
Opened	1991
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.

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.