Boonville Correctional Center (BCC) is located at 1216 East Morgan Street in Boonville, Missouri. It is a medium security (C-3) state penitentiary facility housing approximately 1,100 inmates, predominantly youthful first offenders, albeit that demographic has altered somewhat in the past several years.
BCC is located at the former Missouri Training School for Boys and was constructed in 1889. The facility, located in Boonville, was transferred to the Department of Corrections on July 1, 1983.
Boonville Correctional Center is often referred to as "Gladiator School" due to the predominantly youthful offenders there tend to be more fights and violence there than some of the surrounding prisons.