Potosi Correctional Center
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| Location | 11593 State Highway O Potosi, Missouri |
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| Status | open |
| Security class | Maximum , Death Row |
| Capacity | 800 |
| Opened | 1989 |
| Managed by | Missouri Department of Corrections |
Coordinates: 37°56′11″N 90°44′12″W / 37.93639°N 90.73667°W
Potosi Correctional Center (PCC) is a Missouri Department of Corrections prison located in unincorporated Washington County, Missouri, near Mineral Point. The facility currently houses 800 capital punishment, maximum security and high-risk male inmates.
The facility, which opened in 1989, is a maximum security prison. In 1989 it had about 200 prisoners.
Shortly after the prison's opening, the majority of the non-death row prisoners at Potosi were serving long sentences, such as life imprisonment without parole, or sentences with a fifty-year minimum before parole eligibility. A small number had shorter sentences.
In April 1989 the state transferred its 70 death row inmates from Jefferson City Correctional Center (JCCC, originally Missouri State Penitentiary) to Potosi. U. S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri approved some modifications to the consent decree before the inmates were moved to Potosi. Originally death row prisoners lived in a 92-bed, two wing facility at PCC. The death row inmates had their own special custody levels: minimum custody, medium custody, close custody, and administrative segregation. One wing housed the minimum custody death row inmates, with another wing housing the others. The classification system was intended to award privileges to death row prisoners exhibiting good behavior. After inmates filed legal challenges, administrators began to consider whether to integrate death row prisoners into the non-death row population, because the majority of non-death row the prisoners at PCC had very long sentences and had committed similar crimes to those committed by death row inmates.
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