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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. The current JCCC was opened on September 15, 2004, replacing the Missouri State Penitentiary , also located in Jefferson City, an aging facility first opened in 1836. [ 1 ]
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 ...
Since 1989, a total of 101 people were executed by the State of Missouri. All were convicted of first-degree murder and all were executed by lethal injection, although lethal gas remains a legal method of execution. Before April 1989, all executions were carried out at the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City.
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.
The first person executed in the modern era was George Mercer who was executed at the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City, Missouri on January 6, 1989. [8] The next 61 executions starting with Gerald Smith were done at the Potosi Correctional Center in Mineral Point, Missouri. [9]
Jefferson City Correctional Center; K. ... Western Missouri Correctional Center; Women's Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center This page was ...
It houses approximately 1600 inmates, with a staff of approximately 470. It is located at 8501 No More Victims Road, Jefferson City, MO 65101. [1] Algoa Correctional Center is the only male institution in the state of Missouri that offers the IFI Program. The IFI program is also in the Women's Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center.
James T. Blair Jr., mayor of Jefferson City in 1947 and later governor of Missouri [2] Richard Everett Dorr, former U.S. federal judge; born in Jefferson City; Patricia A. Goodrich, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly; born in Jefferson City; John A. Gordon, former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency; born in Jefferson City