 LCF, along with the Federal Bureau of Prison's United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, the United States Army Corrections Command's United States Disciplinary Barracks, and Midwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility in Fort Leavenworth are the four major prisons that give the Leavenworth area its reputation as a corrections center.The facility was originally known as the Kansas State Penitentiary (KSP) and was built by prison labor in the 1860s.The name was changed to Lansing Correctional Facility in 1990.