Draper Correctional Facility was an
Alabama Department of Corrections
The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) is the agency responsible for incarceration of convicted felons in the state of Alabama in the United States. It is headquartered in the Alabama Criminal Justice Center in Montgomery.
Alabama has rela ...
state prison for men located in
Elmore,
Elmore County, Alabama
Elmore County is a county located in the east central portion of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census, the population was 87,977. Its county seat is Wetumpka. Its name is in honor of General John A. Elmore.
Elmore County is part o ...
. The prison first opened in 1939 with a capacity of 600 beds, replacing the former Speigner Reformatory.
Speigner had been founded circa 1900 and employed inmates on a farm and
cotton mill
A cotton mill is a building that houses spinning (textiles), spinning or weaving machinery for the production of yarn or cloth from cotton, an important product during the Industrial Revolution in the development of the factory system.
Althou ...
on site.
[Plans and Illustrations of Prisons and Reformatories, Hastings Hornell Hart, 1922, page 30] It was destroyed by fire in November 1932
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.
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
Elmore Correctional Facility is a medium-security prison for men, located in Elmore, Elmore County, Alabama. The facility has an operating capacity of 1176 and was first opened in 1981 with temporary modular dormitories.
Elmore is the site of ...
about a mile to the east.
References
External links
interior view of Draper in 1975, during a period of overcrowded conditions
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Prisons in Alabama
Buildings and structures in Elmore County, Alabama
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1939 establishments in Alabama
2018 disestablishments in Alabama