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United States Penitentiary, LeavenworthThe United States Penitentiary (USP), Leavenworth is located in Kansas on 1,583 acres (6.4 km²) with 22.8 acres (92,000 m²) inside the penitentiary walls. The USP Leavenworth came into existence through an act of Congress in 1895. It is an all-male high security level facility committed to carrying out the judgments of the Federal Courts. | 197 | | opulation | 1641 (as of 9 May 2002) | | ecurity Level | HIGH | | ustody Level | IN and MAXIMUM | | udicial District | District of Kansas | History timeline 1827 - Colonel Henry Leavenworth chose site for new fort. 1875 - Fort chosen as the site for a military prison. Within a year, Ft. Leavenworth housed more than 300 prisoners in a remodeled supply depot building. 1894 - Secretary of War conceded to the House Appropriations Committee that War Department could do without the military prison. 1895 - Congress transferred the military prison from the War Department to the Department of Justice. (July 1) 1895 - July 1 - the Department of Justice took over the plant and inaugurated the United States Penitentiary. Commandant of the military prison, James V. Pope. Warden of the USP, James W. French. 1896 - House Judiciary Committee recommended that the facility be replaced. 1896 - June 10 - the Congress authorized a new federal penitentiary. 1897 - Spring (March) - Warden French marched prisoners every morning two and one-half miles (4 km) from Ft. Leavenworth to the new site of the federal penitentiary. (Work went on for two and one-half decades). 1899 - July 1 - Robert W. McClaughry was appointed Leavenworth's 2nd Warden. 1901 - November 10 - Joseph Waldrupe was the first correctional officer to be killed (records dating back to 1901) in the line of duty at Leavenworth. 1903 - Enough space was under roof to permit the first 418 prisoners to move into the new federal penitentiary. 1904 - First Cell house completed 1906 - February 1, all prisoners had been transferred to the new facility, and the War Department appreciatively accepted the return of its prison. 1910 - May, the Attorney General approved construction of a separate cellblock for females on the penitentiary grounds - plan was later abandoned. 1913 - June, T. W. Morgan, editor of a newspaper in the small Kansas town of Ottawa, was appointed Leavenworth's 3rd Warden. 1919 - Construction of the cellblocks completed. 1926 - Construction of the shoe shops completed. 1928 - Construction of the brush and broom factory completed. 1930 - May - the Bureau of Prison's became a federal agency within the Department of Justice. 1930 - September 5 - Carl Panzram becomes the first to be executed (records dating back to 1927) by hanging at Leavenworth. 1934 - December 11 - President Franklin Roosevelt authorized the first federal prison industries as a public corporation. 1938 - August 12 - Robert Suhay and Glenn Applegate the first double execution (records dating back to 1927) by hanging at Leavenworth. External links - http://www.lvarea.com/data/usp_info.htm
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