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Allen County Jail
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Allen County Jail is a county jail located in Allen County, Kansas. Rated capacity: 79. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
The Old Allen County Jail is a former jail in Iola, Kansas, United States. Built in the late 1860s, it operated as a detention facility for nearly a century before a replacement opened; today, it is the Old Jail Museum, operated by the Allen County Historical Society, and it has been designated a historic site.
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Capacity
79
Current population
500
Occupancy
633%
Year opened
1869
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1869
Region
Kansas
Security level
Maximum
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.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
30/100
Moderate concern30/100
- Overcrowding
- 30/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · Extreme overcrowding at 633% of capacity
This facility scores 30. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 28 points above national average.
Related facilities
Same country, matched on type + security level where possible.
- Beaufort County Detention CenterWashingtonMaximumCounty jail222% occupancy
- Abbeville County Detention CenterAbbevilleMaximumCounty jail200% occupancy
- Southwest Virginia Regional Jail - TazewellTazewellMaximumCounty jail330% occupancy
- Franklin County Detention FacilitySt. AlbansMaximumCounty jail660% occupancy
- Spartanburg County Main JailSpartanburgMaximumCounty jail152% occupancy
- Anderson County Detention CenterAndersonMaximumCounty jail183% occupancy
Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersOccupancythis: 633% · peers avg: 93% (+583%)
Capacity (beds)this: 79 · peers avg: 547 (86%)
Data completeness
74%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries
- HIFLD dataset query
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q4731598)
- Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Allen County Jail. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/allen-county-jail
Chicago
"Allen County Jail." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/allen-county-jail.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-allen-county-jail,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Allen County Jail},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/allen-county-jail},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}