Topeka Correctional Facility
| Location | 815 S.E. Rice Road Topeka, Kansas |
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| Status | multi-security |
| Capacity | 764 |
| Opened | 1970s |
| Managed by | Kansas Department of Corrections |
| Director | Warden Dona Hook |
Topeka Correctional Facility is a Kansas Department of Corrections state prison for women located in Topeka, Kansas. Built in the 1970s, in 1995 it became the only women's prison in the state. It administers a wide range of security levels, from maximum security through work-release.
The site was founded in 1905 as the Topeka Industrial Institute by the African American educator Edward S. Stephens, as a school on its own farmland, more or less modeled on the Tuskegee Institute. The school closed in 1955.
The state would send a woman sentenced to death to this prison in the event that such happens. The execution chamber for prisoners of all genders is at Lansing Correctional Facility.