Draper Correctional Facility

Draper Correctional Facility was an Alabama Department of Corrections state prison for men located in Elmore, Elmore County, Alabama. The prison first opened in 1939 with a capacity of 600 beds, replacing the former Speigner Reformatory.^[1] Speigner had been founded circa 1900 and employed inmates on a farm and cotton mill on site.^[2] It was destroyed by fire in November 1932^[3]

Draper Correctional Facility

Location	2828 Alabama Highway 143, Elmore, Alabama
Capacity	1232
Opened	1939
Closed	March 13, 2018
Managed by	Alabama Department of Corrections
Director	Louis Boyd

Draper retains a farming operation and a furniture plant, as well as vocational training and employing inmates on facility maintenance. Each prisoner has an assigned job.^[1] It was named for Hamp Draper, the then-director of the state corrections department.

Elmore is the site of three Alabama state prisons: Draper, Staton Correctional Facility which is immediately adjacent, and the Elmore Correctional Facility about a mile to the east.