United States Disciplinary Barracks

United States Disciplinary Barracks (USDB)

The exterior of the USDB in 2002
Location in Kansas
Location	Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, U.S.
Coordinates	39°22′42″N 94°56′07″W / 39.37833°N 94.93528°W / 39.37833; -94.93528[1]
Status	Operational
Security class	Minimum-maximum security, Level III (Maximum Security)
Capacity	515
Population	440
Opened	1874, rebuilt in 2002
Managed by	United States Army Corrections Command
Director	Commandant: Colonel Kevin Payne

The United States Disciplinary Barracks (USDB), colloquially known as Leavenworth, is a military correctional facility^[2] located on Fort Leavenworth, a United States Army post in Kansas. It is one of two major prisons built on Fort Leavenworth property, the other is the military Midwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility, which opened on 5 October 2010. Together the facilities make up the Military Corrections Complex which is under the command of its commandant, who holds the rank of colonel, and serves as both the Army Corrections Brigade Commander and Deputy commander of The United States Army Corrections Command

The USDB is the U.S. military's only maximum-security facility that houses male service members convicted at court-martial for violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Only male Service Members with sentences over ten years are confined to the USDB. Those with sentences under ten years are confined in smaller facilities, such as the nearby Midwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility or the Naval Consolidated Brig at Chesapeake, Virginia. Corrections personnel at the facility are Army Corrections Specialists (MOS 31E) trained at the U.S. Army Military Police school located at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, as well as Marine and Air Force corrections personnel.

Female prisoners from all branches of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) are typically incarcerated in the Naval Consolidated Brig, Miramar instead of the USDB.^[3]