The Topeka Correctional Facility sits on the site of a former Black vocational school affiliated with the Tuskegee Institute.
Curtis Pitts would like to see the site returned to its original purpose.
Pitts, a self-described community servant, told The Topeka Capital-Journal’s Jason Tidd the Topeka Correctional Facility occupying the buildings of a former school reinforces the school-to-prison pipeline.
