United States · Kansas · Iola
Allen County Jail
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Allen County Jail is a county jail located in Allen County, Kansas. Rated capacity: 79. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
The Old Allen County Jail is a former jail in Iola, Kansas, United States. Built in the late 1860s, it operated as a detention facility for nearly a century before a replacement opened; today, it is the Old Jail Museum, operated by the Allen County Historical Society, and it has been designated a historic site.
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Capacity
79
Current population
500
Occupancy
633%
Year opened
1869
Operational
Facility profile
Operator
Allen County Sheriff / Corrections
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1869
Region
Kansas
Security level
Maximum
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 30/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · Extreme overcrowding at 633% of capacity
Compared to other facilities in United States
7324 peersData completeness
74%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries
- HIFLD dataset query
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- Wikidata (Q4731598)
- Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.