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El Dorado Correctional Facility

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El Dorado Correctional Facility is a state prison located in Butler County, Kansas. Rated capacity: 1,693. Reported population: 1,503. Security level: Medium. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.

Background

The El Dorado Correctional Facility (abbreviated EDCF) is a maximum security prison located east of the city of El Dorado in rural Prospect Township, Butler County, Kansas, United States. EDCF is the location of the Kansas Department of Corrections (KDOC) Reception and Diagnostic Unit (RDU), which processes every male inmate when they are received into custody. RDU helps determine the inmate's custody level, mental health classification, and educational program needs before he is assigned to a facility. EDCF has two general population cellhouses and one medium security dormitory. EDCF is administratively linked to two minimum security units, formerly "honor camps", one in El Dorado and one in Toronto, Kansas.

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Capacity

1,693

Current population

1,503

Occupancy

89%

Year opened

1991

Operational

Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology

Facility profile

Population held

Mixed/unknown

Opened

1991

Region

Kansas

Security level

Medium

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.

Notable inmates

  • Dennis Rader
    1945 · serial killer

    Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945), better known by his pseudonym BTK (for "bind, torture, kill"), is an American serial killer and mass murderer who killed at least ten people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991.

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Contact & address

1737 Southeast United States Highway 54, El Dorado 67042
(316) 321-7284
Official site

Conditions Risk Score

Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated

1/100
Low concern1/100
Overcrowding
0/30
Oversight reports
1/30
Structural flags
0/15
Death signals
0/15
Conditions text
0/10

What the score is responding to:

  • · 1 oversight report in the last 5 years

This facility scores 1. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 1 points below national average.

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Compared to other facilities in United States

7436 peers
Occupancythis: 89% · peers avg: 93% (4%)
Capacity (beds)this: 1693 · peers avg: 547 (+209%)

Reports

  • marshall-project4 Aug 2022

    I’m helping myself. I’m in here for taking someone else’s life. Now I’m saving people’s lives. That’s how I look at it. Louis Dixon, 27 Job : Unemployed grass cutter Location : El Dorado Correctional Facility, El Dorado, Kansas Monthly income : $0 For years, when I first got locked up, my mother was the only person I had to take care of me. She was barely able to, but she sent me $20 whenever she

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Data completeness

74%

How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.

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BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-el-dorado-correctional-faci,
  author = {{World Prisons}},
  title = {El Dorado Correctional Facility},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/el-dorado-correctional-facility},
  urldate = {2026-10-23}
}