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The United States Disciplinary Barracks (or USDB, popularly known as Leavenworth, or the DB) is a military correctional facility〔(U.S.D.B Home - 15 December 2013 )〕 located on Fort Leavenworth, a United States Army post in Kansas. It is one of three major prisons built on Fort Leavenworth property, the others being the federal United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, four miles (6 km) to the south, and the military Midwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility, which opened on 5 October 2010.〔(Army Corrections Command stands up – Fort Leavenworth Lamp -19 October 2007 )〕 It reports to the United States Army Corrections Command and its commandant usually holds the rank of colonel. The USDB is the U.S. military's only maximum-security facility for males and houses male service members convicted at court-martial for violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Only enlisted prisoners with sentences over ten years, commissioned officers, and prisoners convicted of offenses related to national security are confined to the USDB. Enlisted prisoners with sentences under ten years are confined in smaller facilities, such as the nearby Midwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility or the Naval Consolidated Brig at Chesapeake, Virginia. Corrections personnel at the facility are Army Corrections Specialists (MOS 31E) trained at the U.S. Army Military Police school located at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, as well as Marine and Air Force corrections personnel. Female prisoners are incarcerated in the Naval Consolidated Brig, Miramar.〔Powers, Rod. "(Inside a Military Prison ). About.com. Retrieved on January 27, 2014. "dditionally, all female prisoners within DOD serve their time at NAVCONBRIG Miramar to better facilitate the rehabilitative process. "〕 ==First facility== Originally known as the United States Military Prison, the USDB was established by Act of Congress in 1874. Prisoners were used for the bulk of the construction, which began in 1875 and was completed in 1921. The facility was able to house up to 1,500 prisoners. From 1895 until 1903, prisoners from the USDB were used to construct the nearby United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth〔Named for Henry Leavenworth〕 until around 400 federal prisoners were moved there to complete the work. Although work on the two prisons continued at about the same time and they share the same design of a central dome-topped building, the two prisons reflect dramatically different prison concepts. The original USDB followed the Pennsylvania plan modeling on a layout of the Eastern State Penitentiary where cell blocks radiated out from a central structure. Individual cells were relatively isolated. In contrast, the civilian prison is modeled on the Auburn Correctional Facility in New York reflected a newer concept where prisoners were housed in a large rectangular building where there was a certain amount of communal living.〔(The U.S. Federal Prison System ) by Mary F. (Francesca) Bosworth – Sage Publications, Inc; 1st edition (15 July 2002) ISBN 0-7619-2304-7〕 The original USDB was Fort Leavenworth's biggest and tallest building sitting on top of a hill at the corner of McPherson Avenue and Scott Avenue overlooking the Missouri River. The largest buildings of the original barracks ("The Castle") were torn down in 2004. The old domed building was nicknamed "Little Top" in contrast to the domed federal prison two and a half miles (3 km) south which was nicknamed the "Big Top.".〔()〕 The walls and 10 of the buildings in the original location remaining—including Pope Hall—have been converted or are in the process of being converted to other uses at the Fort. The prison's original commandant's house still remains.〔(ACT_moves to new digs in old USDB – Fort Leavenworth Lamp – 9 July 2009 )〕 The original prison was . Its walls were 16 to high.〔Saga of Fort Leavenworth Castle, Donald Jay Olsen, page 10.〕 Gail Dillon of ''Airman'' magazine said in 2002 that "A visitor would immediately notice the medieval ambiance of this institution – the well-worn native stone and brick walls constructed by long-forgotten inmates when 'hard labor' meant exactly that – have witnessed thousands of inmates' prayers, curses, and pleas over the past 128 years" and that entering the facility was "like stepping back in time or suddenly being part of a kitschy movie set about a prison bust."〔Dillon, Gail. "Crime and punishment: inside Fort Leavenworth's historic U.S. Disciplinary Barracks." ''Airman''. November 2002. (1 ). Retrieved on 6 March 2010.〕 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 Disciplinary Barracks」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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