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Potosi Correctional Center (PCC) is a Missouri Department of Corrections prison located in unincorporated Washington County, Missouri, [3] near Mineral Point. [4] The facility currently houses 800 death row, maximum security and high-risk male inmates. [citation needed] The facility, which opened in 1989, is a maximum security prison.
Between state and federal correctional facilities, that meant 3,356 of 28,172 prisoners in Missouri were in restrictive housing in 2019. In Kansas, it was 1,010 of 9,631. Nearby Arkansas sat at 13.5%.
David Hosier is seen inside the visitor center at the Potosi Correctional Center on Tuesday, May 21, 2024, in Potosi, Missouri. Hosier was convicted on circumstantial evidence and maintains he is ...
Seventy-five people have been exonerated in Missouri since 1991, including six men with death sentences, according to the National Registry of Exonerations. Show comments Advertisement
The next 61 executions starting with Gerald Smith were done at the Potosi Correctional Center in Potosi, Missouri. Since April 2005, executions have been 25 miles east of Potosi at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Missouri .
The Potosi Correctional Center of the Missouri Department of Corrections is located in an unincorporated area in Washington County, near Mineral Point. [13] The prison houses male death row inmates. [14] The old Missouri Pacific line between St. Louis and Texarkana serves Mineral Point.
David Hosier sat down with The Star for an interview at Potosi Correctional Center. The 69 year old served with the U.S. Navy and the Jefferson City Fire Department before landing on death row.
Between April 1989 and March 2005, executions were carried out at the Potosi Correctional Center in Mineral Point. Since April 2005, all subsequent executions have been carried out at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre.