Starting Friday, former wardens and corrections officers will lead two-hour tours of the stone-walled building in Lansing that first began housing inmates in the 1860s
An inmate's cell at the decommissioned Lansing Correctional Facility , formerly the Kansas State Penitentiary, is seen during a media tour on Sept. 9.The shuttered Kansas prison where the killers chronicled in Truman Capote ‘s “In Cold Blood” were executed is now a tourist attraction.
The building, originally called the Kansas State Penitentiary, was without purpose after the Kansas Department of Corrections opened the newly constructed Lansing Correctional Facility in 2020. But instead of demolishing it, the Department of Corrections transferred control of the building to the Lansing Historical Society and Museum.
Among the notable inmates executed at the prison were Richard “Dick” Hickock and Perry Smith, who were convicted of murdering four members of the Clutter family on November 15, 1959, in the family’s home near Holcomb, Kansas. One spot on the tour is the Chow Hall, where the late country music legend Johnny Cash performed for inmates in 1970.
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