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{{short description|American prison cemetery}}
{{Distinguish|Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery|Leavenworth National Cemetery|USP Leavenworth Cemetary}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2013}}
{{Infobox cemetery
| name        = Fort Leavenworth Military Prison Cemetery
| image       = Fort Leavenworth Military Prison Cemetery.jpg
| caption     = U.S.D.B. Cemetery Sign
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| established = 1884<ref name="ftlvnhistsoc">[http://www.ftlvnhistsoc.org/German_POW_executions.htm Fort Leavenworth Historical Society, "German POW Execution"]</ref>{{failed verification|date=October 2014}}
| country     = United States
| location    = [[Fort Leavenworth, Kansas]], US
| coordinates = {{Coord|39|22|13|N|94|55|24|W|format=dms|display=inline,title|type:landmark_region:US-KS}}
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| owner       = [[United States Disciplinary Barracks]]
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| graves      = 299 (240 marked, 59 unmarked)
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| findagraveid= 2177930
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'''Fort Leavenworth Military Prison Cemetery''' (also known as the '''United States Disciplinary Barracks Cemetery''') is a [[cemetery]] maintained by the [[Fort Leavenworth]] Military Prison, [[Leavenworth County, Kansas]]. The purpose of this cemetery is for the burial of unclaimed bodies of soldiers who died in the [[United States Disciplinary Barracks]].<ref name="data">[http://www.interment.net/data/us/ks/leavenworth/ftleav_prison/index.htm Fort Leavenworth Military Prison burial data from Interment.net]</ref>
It is the final resting place for 299 soldiers who died in the prison, 58 of whom lie in unmarked graves.<ref name="data"/> The majority of the soldiers who are buried in Fort Leavenworth Military Prison Cemetery died between 1898 and 1905.<ref name="data"/> 

The last known interment in the cemetery occurred under special circumstances in May 2023, when the remains of U.S. Navy Lt. Andrew Chabrol, who had been executed by Virginia in 1993 for the 1991 abduction, rape and murder of a female enlisted sailor, were relocated from a niche at the columbarium of Arlington National Cemetery in accordance with a provision in the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act.<ref>{{cite news |title=At Arlington National Cemetery, a convicted killer rests among heroes |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/05/27/arlington-national-cemetery-andrew-chabrol/|access-date=29 June 2024 |newspaper=Washington Post |date=27 May 2022}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite news |title=Sailor's killer to be removed from Arlington thanks to new law |url=https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2023/04/12/sailors-killer-to-be-removed-from-arlington-thanks-to-new-law/ |access-date=29 June 2024 |publisher=Navy Times |date=12 April 2023}}</ref>

Otherwise, as families of soldiers who die while in custody of the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks are expected to claim the bodies, the U.S. military does not have any plan for future burials.
[[File:Willi Scholz Headstone.jpg|thumb|left|A headstone in the back row (11th) of a German POW buried at the site. This prisoner was [[hanging|hanged]] for the murder of [[Johannes Kunze]].]]
Fourteen [[German prisoners of war in the United States|German prisoners of war]] who were executed in 1945 (for the murders of fellow-POWs [[Johannes Kunze]], [[Horst Günther]] and [[Werner Drechsler]]<ref name="ftlvnhistsoc"/>) in the military prison are buried in the northwest corner of the cemetery.<ref>[http://venus.soci.niu.edu/~archives/ABOLISH/mar98/0037.html "Abolish Archives" 1 March, 1988] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060913065759/http://venus.soci.niu.edu/~archives/ABOLISH/mar98/0037.html |date=September 13, 2006 }}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of people executed by the United States military]]

==References==
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[[Category:Fort Leavenworth]]
[[Category:Military cemeteries in the United States]]
[[Category:Protected areas of Leavenworth County, Kansas]]
[[Category:Cemeteries in Kansas]]
[[Category:1884 establishments in Kansas]]
[[Category:Cemeteries established in the 1880s]]