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Kansas City Reentry Center

prison in Missouri, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ24885805 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Kansas City Reentry Center is a minimum security state prison located in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. In 2015, the state converted and renamed the facility from the prior Kansas City Community Release Center, which had released large numbers of parolees into the community.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Kansas City Reentry Center” as prison in Missouri, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Kansas, City and Reentry.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2015. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Kansas, City and Reentry providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Kansas City Reentry Center”, the useful work is to connect “prison in Missouri, United States” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q24885805. Authority coordinates are 39.107, -94.598. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2015.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Kansas City Reentry Center” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.