The Jefferson City Correctional Center (JCCC) is a

maximum security Maximum Security may refer to: * Supermax, "control-unit" prisons, or units within prisons * Maximum Security (comics), a comic book miniseries published by Marvel Comics * ''Maximum Security'' (Tony MacAlpine album), 1987 * ''Maximum Security'' ...

prison A prison, also known as a jail, gaol (dated, standard English, Australian, and historically in Canada), penitentiary (American English and Canadian English), detention center (or detention centre outside the US), correction center, corre ...

Jefferson City Jefferson City, informally Jeff City, is the capital of Missouri, United States. It had a population of 43,228 at the 2020 census, ranking as the 15th most populous city in the state. It is also the county seat of Cole County and the principa ...

Missouri Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee): Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas t ...

operated by the

Missouri Department of Corrections 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 ...

. 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 The Missouri State Penitentiary was a prison in Jefferson City, Missouri, that operated from 1836 to 2004. Part of the Missouri Department of Corrections, it served as the state of Missouri's primary maximum security institution.Lombardi, George ...

, also located in Jefferson City, an aging facility first opened in 1836. It is near the

Algoa Correctional Center Algoa Correctional Center (ACC) is a minimum security prison in Jefferson City, Missouri Jefferson City, informally Jeff City, is the capital of Missouri, United States. It had a population of 43,228 at the 2020 census, ranking as the 15th ...

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. August 14, 2003. Retrieved on September 18, 2010.

Notable inmates

Bobby Bostic Bobby Bostic (born January 5, 1979) is an American writer who was sentenced to a term of 241 years. On December 12, 1995, Bostic, aged 16, along with 18-year-old Donald Hutson robbed a group of people in Missouri at gunpoint, and shortly there ...

, sentenced to 241 years for armed robbery and a carjacking committed when he was 16-years-old in 1995.

References

External links

Official website
(Archive) Buildings and structures in Jefferson City, Missouri Prisons in Missouri Government buildings completed in 2004 2004 establishments in Missouri {{US-prison-stub