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Draper Correctional Facility

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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.
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Plans and Illustrations of Prisons and Reformatories, Hastings Hornell Hart, 1922, page 30
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interior view of Draper in 1975, during a period of overcrowded conditions
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Above facilities are male-only unless noted by ♀ (female only)
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Elmore is the site of three Alabama state prisons: Draper,
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on site. It was destroyed by fire in November 1932
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Elmore, Alabama
Alabama Department of Corrections
Alabama Department of Corrections
Elmore
Elmore County, Alabama
cotton mill
Staton Correctional Facility
Elmore Correctional Facility


"Alabama Department of Corrections"
"Alabama Department of Corrections"
interior view of Draper in 1975, during a period of overcrowded conditions
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Alabama
Alabama Department of Corrections
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Donaldson
Draper
Easterling
Elmore
Fountain / JO Davis
Holman
Kilby
Limestone
Montgomery Women's Facility

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