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The United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth (USP Leavenworth) is a medium-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Kansas. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. It also includes a satellite prison camp for minimum-security male offenders. USP Leavenworth is located 25 miles northwest of Kansas City, Kansas. ==Background== The civilian USP Leavenworth is the oldest of three major prisons built on federal land in Leavenworth County, Kansas. It is often confused with, but separate from the United States Military Barracks, which is a military facility on Fort Leavenworth. The United States Disciplinary Barracks (USDB) is four miles (6 km) north and is the sole maximum-security penal facility of the United States Military.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://usdb.leavenworth.army.mil/main.htm )〕 Prisoners from the original USDB were used to build the civilian penitentiary. In addition, the military's medium security Joint Regional Correctional Facility, located southwest of the new USDB, opened in 2010. The USDB and JRCF operate independently from the USP-Leavenworth. The prison was described by Pete Earley, the only writer at that time who had ever been granted unlimited access to the prison, in his book, ''The Hot House''. The prison's history has also been covered in the pictorial history titled ''U.S. Penitentiary Leavenworth'' by Kenneth M. LaMaster, the retired Institution Historian. Life in the prison was also described by Donald Powell Wilson in his book "My six convicts : a psychologist's three years in Fort Leavenworth" USP Leavenworth was the largest maximum security federal prison in the United States from 1903 until 2005 when it was downgraded to a medium-security facility. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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