Fort Leavenworth Prison

Items listed below are in the file drawers of a cabinet in the Kansas Room of LVPL.
For additional online information, click here: Global Security - Fort Leavenworth
or here: Leavenworth Chamber of Commerce Prison Information

Nussbaum, Al. "Leavenworth, Then."

United States Disciplinary Barracks. [brochure]

"Disciplinary Barracks." [photo]

"Outfitting Post For Army of West." Leavenworth Times. Dec. 9, 1938.

Parish Connie. "USDB Executions Recalled." Leavenworth Times. March 4, 1985.

Parish, Connie. "USDB Celebrates Anniversary Tuesday." Leavenworth Times. May 22, 1985.

Johnston III, J. H. "Leavenworth History - Part 34."

"Five Prisoners of War Executed Early Today at the DB" Leavenworth Times. September 10, 1945.

Diamond, Woodie. "Cemetery Dates Back More Than 100 Years." Lamp. June 8, 1987.

Siebert, Prudence; photgrapher. "Last Look Inside the Old USDB." Leavenworth Times. August 26, 2004, ill.

Parish, Connie. "Study Hopes to Link Disorder, Criminal Activity." Leavenworth Times. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is studied as a link to criminal behavior.

"Five Prisoners of War Executed Early Today at the DB: Germans Found Guilty by Army Court-Martial at Oklahoma Camp of Murdering Fellow Prisoners - Trap Springs First at 12:07 - A Two-Hour Session." Leavenworth Times. July 10, 1945.

"Seven More Die on Gallows At Post Prison: All German Prisoners of War Convicted of Killing Fellow Inmate." Leavenworth Times. August 26, 1945.

Aiken, S. C. "Hang 2 Nazi PWs in Death of Countryman." Leavenworth Times. July 15, 1945.

Linn, Tim. "Ground Broken at New Prison on Fort. Leavenworth Times. June 18, 2008, ill.