Thank your for your supportive remarks. I did enjoy taking the photo's but as the saying goes, if the walls could talk, but I could not find anyone to tell me. I suppose I could have gone to the new facility to talk to an old timer but that was just a bit to much at least at this time.
With the kindness of our new Freeper, he provided insight into a several of the photo's and it did reinforce what I had learned of the prison.
Just one of the stories I learned. Evidently the old prison did not have certain facilities so they would bring the inmates to the medical hospital on post, the one frequented by spouses and children.
This was years back, BTW, anyway the guy was escorted by to MPs. He was to get an x-ray. The movement was uneventful, that is until he got into the x-ray room. He evidently tackled the guard, one in there with him, took his gun, then shot his escort and tried to shoot at the x-ray tech.
Needless to say, this changed their SOP, the next time he returned and he needed to, the cops were not gentle with him after his previous antics and the prisoner was placed on a gurney. Tied him to the gurney, then took another gurney placed it on top of the inmate, like a sandwich and that is how he was escorted the remainder of his days.
They were more gentle than I would have been. His next trip would have been inside of a box, and it'd be just one way.
There are many retired military 95C Correctional specialists living in the leavenworth area. My father worked at the DB from 1958-1965 when he retired. He was an escort for the last military prisoner executed by the military in the early 60's. they hung him I think at KSP. His career started at the military detention facilities in Japan in 1945. The military has its seperate facilities due to the fact that the individuals convicted under the UCMJ articles are sentenced to military punishment. They also have nothing in common with regular criminals and for the most part are first time offenders not the normal revolving door criminals that are in the civilian prisons. I was an old guy when I enlisted (23) and as an MP 95B law enforcement found that most prisoner abuse occured because of the youth and immaturity of the troops on the crews. Most want and crave excitment and as with all youths get out of hand without strong guidance.