Local authorities are mulling a proposal to turn a portion of the oldest penitentiary in Kansas into a tourist destination.
Lansing officials and the Lansing Historical Society have announced a plan to save a large section of the Lansing Correctional Facility and preserve it as an income-generating piece of history. The plan would preserve the old prison, including some inmate cells and the prison auditorium, where music legend Johnny Cash performed for inmates in 1970.
Roughly 24 hundred inmates still reside at the prison.
The proposal reportedly still needs approval from the Kansas Department of Corrections before it can move forward.
[photo: Lansing Correctional Facility – Facebook ]
