Topeka, Italy
Topeka Correctional Facility is a Kansas Department of Corrections state prison for women located in Topeka, Kansas. Built in the 1970s, in 1995 it became the only women's prison in the state. It administers a wide range of security levels, from maximum security through work-release. The site was fo
unded in 1895 as Kansas Industrial and Educational Institute—later known as Kansas Technical 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. The state would send a woman sentenced to death to this prison in the event that such happens. The execution chamber for prisoners of all genders is at Lansing Correctional Facility.
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