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The Missouri State Penitentiary was designed by John Haviland and constructed in the early 1830s to serve the newly admitted (1821) state of Missouri.Jefferson City had been designated the state capital in 1822, and Governor John Miller suggested that the state's main prison be constructed there to help the city maintain its somewhat tenuous status against other towns trying to obtain the ...
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.
Built in 1966, the prison gained its nickname "The Workhouse" from an 1840s city ordinance that allowed forced labor as a punishment for criminals sentenced in law court who couldn't pay their fines. [3] [4] [5] The Workhouse became infamous for its poor living conditions, prisoner abuse, and penal labor.
Othel Moore was the 126th person to die this year in Missouri’s prison system. His sister said their family has been devastated by his Dec. 8 death. ‘Dangerous place.’
In a news release announcing the groundbreaking for the prisons, Slattery called the new facilities “the future of American corrections.” Among the new Correctional Services Corp. prisons was the Pahokee Youth Development Center, which sat in the middle of sugarcane fields in a rural, swampy part of the state northwest of Miami.
Michael Hudson was raised in Kansas City. The 30-year-old died at a Missouri prison in December. “No one’s giving me answers and it’s killing me,” his mom told The Star.
The Jefferson City Correctional Center (JCCC) is a maximum security prison in Jefferson City, Missouri operated by the Missouri Department of Corrections. It houses up to 1996 inmates, with a staff of 660. It is located at Jefferson City Correctional Center (C-5), Institution, 8200 No More Victims Road Jefferson City, MO 65101.
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.