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Lansing Correctional Facility

Lansing, Leavenworth County, Kansas

Visiting schedules change without notice. Always call before traveling.

Call Visiting Office: 913-727-3235 Info last verified: June 2026

Kansas's largest state prison — a maximum- and medium-security facility for men in Lansing, with a separate minimum-security unit. The new main building opened in February 2020, replacing the historic 1860s prison.

Statewide rules that apply at every KDOC prison

These rules are set by KDOC and apply at every unit. The full list — including all permitted and prohibited items and the approval process — is in Visiting in Kansas.

Dress code

Dress modestly — Kansas facilities enforce a visiting dress code that bars revealing, transparent, or provocative clothing, gang-related items, and anything resembling what residents or staff wear.
Each facility may turn away a visitor who is dressed out of code, and electronic devices are not allowed inside, so confirm the specific facility's rules before traveling.

ID: Every visitor must be on the resident's pre-approved visitation list before visiting (under KDOC policy IMPP 10-113D). Bring a government-issued photo ID to each visit.
What to bring: Bring only what the facility allows — most personal items are not permitted in the visiting room. Money for a resident's account is sent through Access Corrections (by app, online, phone, retail, or a money order to Centralized Resident Banking, P.O. Box 9101, Topeka, KS 66608), never handed over at a visit.
Scheduling: Kansas schedules visits statewide through ICSolutions — reserve at icsolutions.com at least 72 hours ahead. Each facility offers two slots a day (one morning, one afternoon); a visitor may book one or two slots on a day but not multiple days in the same weekend, with up to four visitors per resident, and appropriate contact such as a brief hug is allowed. Newly admitted people in reception cannot have family visits until they advance past intake. Men enter through the Reception and Diagnostic Unit at the El Dorado Correctional Facility; women at the Topeka Correctional Facility.

Full statewide rules: Visiting in Kansas

Overview

Lansing Correctional Facility is a state prison for men operated by the Kansas Department of Corrections. It is in Lansing, in Leavenworth County, in northeastern Kansas. It is the largest prison in the Kansas system and holds men in maximum and medium custody, with a separate minimum-security unit on the grounds.

KDOC assigns custody level based on factors that include sentence length, time remaining, and conduct, and a person’s custody level can change during incarceration. The custody class and housing unit held at a given prison affect how visits are arranged, so families confirm the arrangement that applies to the specific person before a first visit.

What Makes the Lansing Correctional Facility Different

Lansing is the largest prison in Kansas. Its current main building opened in February 2020, replacing a prison on the same site that dated to the 1860s — one of the oldest correctional facilities in the state. The new facility holds a medium- and maximum-security building along with a separate minimum-security unit.

The new building was constructed and is maintained under a long-term lease by CoreCivic, a private corrections company. The prison itself, however, is operated by Kansas Department of Corrections staff — CoreCivic’s role is limited to building and maintaining the facility, not running it. Lansing is a state-operated prison, not a private prison; at the end of the lease term, the state owns the building. All of KDOC’s adult prisons are state-operated, and Kansas does not hold its state prisoners in privately run prisons.

Visiting

The statewide KDOC rules above — the approved visitor list, the dress code, ID, and item limits — apply at the Lansing Correctional Facility. The facility’s own arrangements:

Approved list first: Every visitor must be on the resident’s pre-approved visitation list before any visit. Visitation procedures are set by KDOC policies IMPP 10-113D and IMPP 12-115D.
Scheduling: Visits across Kansas are reserved through ICSolutions at icsolutions.com. A reservation must be made at least 72 hours before visiting begins at the facility for that week; visitors who are not online can contact the facility’s visitation clerk. Each adult facility offers two slots per day, one morning and one afternoon, and a visitor cannot book multiple days in the same weekend.
Days and hours: Set by the facility within the statewide structure. Confirm the current visiting schedule for Lansing before traveling.
Contact visits: Appropriate contact, such as a brief embrace, is allowed between a resident and a visitor. The number of visitors per resident is four.
Main line: 913-727-3235

Getting There and Parking

Lansing Correctional Facility is at 301 E. Kansas Ave. in Lansing, in Leavenworth County in northeastern Kansas. Lansing is just south of the city of Leavenworth and northwest of Kansas City, near the Missouri River. It is reached by way of US Highway 73 and is a short drive from Interstate 70 to the south. The nearest large commercial airport is in the Kansas City area to the southeast.

Parking is on site. Visitors confirm current entry procedures, the visitor-processing location, and what may be brought onto the grounds with the facility before arriving, because electronic devices and personal items are generally not permitted inside.

Nearby Services

Lansing and the neighboring city of Leavenworth have lodging, dining, and fuel, with a wider range of options in the Kansas City metropolitan area to the southeast. Emergency medical care is available locally, with larger hospitals in the Kansas City area. Visitors traveling a long distance generally find the most options for fuel, food, and overnight stays along the Interstate 70 corridor and in the Kansas City area.

Mail

Kansas sends mail straight to the facility — there is no off-site scanning vendor. The Kansas Department of Corrections accepts only letters and photographs through the mail; it will not accept other items mailed into a facility. Every envelope must show the resident’s full name and KDOC registration number, plus the sender’s name and return address — mail missing this information is not delivered. Incoming and outgoing mail that is not legal, official, or privileged may be inspected or read.

Address personal mail to the resident at the facility:

Resident Full Name, KDOC Registration #[number] Lansing Correctional Facility 301 E. Kansas Ave. Lansing, KS 66043

Legal, official, and privileged mail goes to the facility and is handled separately. Books, publications, and packages are not sent as ordinary letter mail; confirm the current approved-vendor and publisher-direct rules with the facility before ordering.

Mail rules are set by Kansas Administrative Regulation 44-12-601 and KDOC policy IMPP 12-120.

Learn More

Visiting someone in a Kansas prison — the approved visitor list, scheduling visits through ICSolutions, days and hours, and what to expect at the facility.
Sending mail to a Kansas prison — what the Kansas DOC accepts, how to address an envelope, and the rules for legal mail and publications.
Phone calls and video visits in Kansas — setting up phone service through ICSolutions, video visits, and electronic messaging through GettingOut.
Sending money in Kansas — depositing to a resident’s trust account through Access Corrections, by app, online, phone, retail, or mailed money order.
Medical care in Kansas prisons — how health care is provided, requesting care, and what families can and cannot do.
Intake and transfers in Kansas — reception at El Dorado (men) and Topeka (women), and how people move between facilities.

Sources

This page is compiled from the following publicly available sources. Policies change without notice — confirm current details with the facility before relying on them.