Draper Correctional Facility

{{Short description|Prison in Elmore, Alabama, United States}}

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| prison_name = Draper Correctional Facility

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| location = 2828 Alabama Highway 143, Elmore, Alabama

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| capacity = 1232

| opened = 1939

| closed = March 13, 2018

| managed_by = Alabama Department of Corrections

| director = Louis Boyd

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Draper Correctional Facility was an Alabama Department of Corrections state prison for men located in Elmore, Elmore County, Alabama. The prison first opened in 1939 with a capacity of 600 beds, replacing the former Speigner Reformatory.{{cite web|url=http://www.doc.state.al.us/facility.aspx?loc=26|title=Alabama Department of Corrections|publisher=doc.state.al.us|accessdate=2014-02-13}} Speigner had been founded circa 1900 and employed inmates on a farm and cotton mill on site.Plans and Illustrations of Prisons and Reformatories, Hastings Hornell Hart, 1922, page 30 It was destroyed by fire in November 1932{{cite web|url=http://www.doc.state.al.us/History.aspx|title=Alabama Department of Corrections|publisher=doc.state.al.us|accessdate=2014-02-13}}

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 about a mile to the east.