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Detention can be due to (pending) criminal charges against the individual pursuant to a prosecution or to protect a person or property. Being detained does not always result in being taken to a particular area (generally called a detention center), either for interrogation or as punishment for a crime (see prison).
Boonville Correctional Center (BCC) is located at 1216 East Morgan Street in Boonville, Missouri. It is a minimum security (C-1 state penitentiary housing approximately 1,300 male inmates. [1] BCC was constructed in 1889 as the Missouri Training School for Boys.
The Missouri Department of Corrections is the state law enforcement agency that operates state prisons in the U.S. state of Missouri. It has its headquarters in Missouri's capital of Jefferson City. The Missouri Department of Corrections has 21 facilities statewide, including two community release centers.
Feb. 23—Flathead County will purchase a large piece of property south of Kalispell as a potential location for a future jail. County commissioners on Thursday approved buying 114 acres of land ...
The Missouri state auditor is investigating the city jail in St. Louis, citing allegations of mismanagement, inadequate nutrition and medical care, and interference with a civilian oversight board
The Portage County Board will consider Tuesday moving forward with buying 42 acres of land in Plover for a new jail and law enforcement center.
Detainer (from detain, Latin detinere); originally in British law, the act of keeping a person against his will, or the wrongful keeping of a person's goods, or other real or personal property. A writ of detainer was a form for the beginning of a personal action against a person already lodged within the walls of a prison; it was superseded by ...
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.