The Midwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility (J.R.C.F.) is a

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at 831 Sabalu Road,

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which opened in 2010. The prison on has a design specification of 512 beds with 43 in special housing and the rest in general housing and dormitory. The prison handles inmates sentenced to terms of ten years or less. It also will house people who are awaiting trial. It is one of three major federal prisons on federal land in Leavenworth. The civilian prison

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is outside the boundaries of Fort Leavenworth on the southwest edge and the military

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is on the northeast side near the Sherman Army Airfield. The Joint Regional Correctional Facility is across Coffin Road just southwest of the Disciplinary Barracks. The prison opened as part of the

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with the consolidating (and closing) of prisons in

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, and

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. The prison, rather than using traditional block house construction, utilizes modular cells. The facility has 480 geothermal wells, each deep to handle its cooling and heating. The street reaching it is named for Master Sergeant Wilberto Sabalu Jr., an Army corrections non-commissioned officer killed in a small arms attack in the Afghanistan War on 6 May 2007.

Notable inmates

The following inmates were confined to J.R.C.F. while awaiting trial by court-martial, and were transferred to the Disciplinary Barracks following their convictions. *

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, accused of leaking government documents in 2010 to

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. *

Robert Bales Robert Bales (born June 30, 1973) is a former United States Army sniper who fatally shot or stabbed 16 Afghan civilians in a mass murder in Panjwayi District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, on March 11, 2012 – an event known as the Kandahar ...

, accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians in the

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on 11 March 2012.

References

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