United States Disciplinary Barracks
Military correction facility in Fort Leavenworth, KS / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The United States Disciplinary Barracks (USDB), colloquially known as Leavenworth, is a military correctional facility[2] located on Fort Leavenworth, a United States Army post in Kansas. It is one of two major prisons built on Fort Leavenworth property, the other is the military Midwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility, which opened on 5 October 2010. It reports to the United States Army Corrections Command and its commandant usually holds the rank of colonel.
Location | Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, U.S. |
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Coordinates | 39°22′42″N 94°56′07″W[1] |
Status | Operational |
Security class | Minimum-maximum security, Level III (Maximum Security) |
Capacity | 515 |
Population | 440 |
Opened | 1874, rebuilt in 2002 |
Managed by | United States Army Corrections Command |
Director | Commandant: Colonel Caroline Horton |
The USDB is the U.S. military's only maximum-security facility that houses male service members convicted at court-martial for violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Only enlisted prisoners with sentences over ten years, commissioned officers, and prisoners convicted of offenses related to national security are confined to the USDB. Enlisted prisoners with sentences under ten years are confined in smaller facilities, such as the nearby Midwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility or the Naval Consolidated Brig at Chesapeake, Virginia. Corrections personnel at the facility are Army Corrections Specialists (MOS 31E) trained at the U.S. Army Military Police school located at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, as well as Marine and Air Force corrections personnel.
Female prisoners from all branches of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) are typically incarcerated in the Naval Consolidated Brig, Miramar instead of the USDB.[3]