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| Location | 815 S.E. Rice Road Topeka, Kansas |
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| Status | multi-security |
| Capacity | 764 [1] |
| Opened | 1970s |
| Managed by | Kansas Department of Corrections |
| Director | Warden Dona Hook |
Topeka Correctional Facility is a Kansas Department of Corrections state prison for women located in Topeka, Kansas. Built in the 1970s, [2] in 1995 it became the only women's prison in the state.[3] It administers a wide range of security levels, from maximum security through work-release.
The site was founded in 1905 as the Topeka Industrial Institute by the African American educator Edward S. Stephens, as a school on its own farmland, more or less modeled on the Tuskegee Institute. The school closed in 1955.[4]
- ^ "Topeka Correctional Facility | Visiting Hours, Applications, Mail, Money".
- ^ "Records of the Kansas Department of Corrections - State Archives - Kansas Historical Society". Kshs.org. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
- ^ "Warden Named For Topeka Correctional Facility (August 2011) — Kansas Department of Corrections". Doc.ks.gov. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
- ^ "CJOnline Blogs - King: Correctional facility has long history". Archived from the original on 2012-04-15. Retrieved 2012-06-22.