Missouri Department of Corrections
| Missouri Department of Corrections | |
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| Abbreviation | MODOC |
Patch of the Missouri Department of Corrections
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| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 1820 |
| Employees | 11,000 |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction* | State of Missouri, USA |
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| Map of Missouri Department of Corrections's jurisdiction. | |
| Size | 87.1 square miles (226 km2) |
| Population | 6,083,672 (2015 est.) |
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| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | 2729 Plaza Drive Jefferson City, MO |
| Elected officer responsible | Eric Greitens, Governor of Missouri |
| Agency executive | Anne L. Precythe, Director |
| Parent agency | State of Missouri |
| Facilities | |
| Correctional Facilities Community supervision centers |
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| Website | |
| Missouri DOC Website | |
| Footnotes | |
| * Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
The Missouri Department of Corrections is a state agency of Missouri that operates state prisons. It is headquartered in Jefferson City.
Below is a list of Missouri state correctional facilities.
Former facilities:
As of 2010 the state did not use private prisons or export prisoners to facilities in other states. Previously, in 1995, the state had exported prisoners to the Newton County Correctional Center in Newton, Texas, to temporarily alleviate overcrowding. The two private prisons in the state (Integrity Correctional Center near Holden, Missouri and Bridewell Prison in Bethany, Missouri) both closed in 2010, and had never held Missouri state inmates.
As of March 2010, the leading cause of prisoner deaths is cancer. Heart disease and liver disease are the next most common causes of prisoner deaths. Among all Missouri residents, heart disease, cancer, and chronic lower respiratory disease are the most frequent causes of deaths.
Prisoners newly inducted into the MDOC system are placed in diagnostic institutions. Adult male prisoners may go to either the Eastern Reception & Diagnostic Center, the Fulton Reception & Diagnostic Center, or the Western Reception & Diagnostic Center. All incoming female prisoners, including adults and minors under 17 who are convicted on adult charges in adult courts, are sent to the Women's Eastern Reception, Diagnostic & Correctional Center. Male prisoners under 17 years of age who are convicted in adult criminal courts were sent to the Northeast Correctional Center which no longer houses minor offenders, minors are now sent to Farmington Correctional Center. Male death row inmates are sent directly to Potosi Correctional Center.
The department has a problem with harassment of and by its employees. During the period from fiscal 2002 to 2006, the state paid out just $340,000 in court awards to its own employees. During the period from 2012 to 2016, the figure was over $7.5 million. Court documents show a culture of sexual and racial harassment by employee against other employees.
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