After Closure
The prison was purchased by Nepco for use as a gasohol refinery. In 1980, the prison drama Brubaker starring Robert Redford was filmed within the former prison buildings. In the early 1990s, Perry County Pizza took over the educational wing of the old prison to make frozen pizza kits for school fundraisers.
In Spring 2005 the entire Junction City Prison was demolished.
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