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.
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- interior view of Draper in 1975, during a period of overcrowded conditions
32°34′38″N 86°20′14″W / 32.57719°N 86.33733°W / 32.57719; -86.33733
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