Draper Correctional Facility
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| Location | 2828 Alabama Highway 143, Elmore, Alabama |
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| Capacity | 1232 |
| Opened | 1939 |
| Closed | March 13, 2018 |
| Managed by | Alabama Department of Corrections |
| Director | Louis Boyd |
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 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.
References
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- ^ Plans and Illustrations of Prisons and Reformatories, Hastings Hornell Hart, 1922, page 30
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