Cameron
Cameron may refer to:
People
* Clan Cameron, a Scottish clan
* Cameron (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name)
* Cameron (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name)
;Mononym
* Cam'ron (born 197 ...
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...
. (The town of Cameron straddles DeKalb and Clinton Counties.) According to the official Official Manual State of Missouri the facility has a capacity of 1,440 maximum security prisoners.
The facility opened in 1997 and is immediately adjacent to the Western Missouri Correctional Center, which opened in 1988. Crossroads was the first Missouri prison to install a perimeter electric fence with a lethal charge.
Among the inmates of Crossroads are the kidnapper
Michael J. Devlin
Michael John Devlin (born November 19, 1965)Kirkwood, Missouri, serving 74 life sentences, and the serial killer Lorenzo Gilyard.
In January 2019, Missouri Governor Mike Parsons announced that Crossroads Correctional Center would be closing. In July 2019 many of the offenders were transferred to one side of Western Missouri Correctional Center which is adjacent to CRCC, and others where transferred to prisons throughout the state.https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/missouri/articles/2019-07-13/with-few-inmates-left-missouri-prison-nears-closure