Crossroads Correctional Center

for the private prison in Montana, see Crossroads Correctional Facility
Crossroads Correctional Center
Location 1115 SE Pence Road
Cameron, Missouri
Security class maximum security
Opened 1997
Managed by Missouri Department of Corrections
Director Ronda Pash, Warden

Crossroads Correctional Center (CRCC) is a Missouri Department of Corrections state prison for men located in Cameron, DeKalb County, Missouri. (The town of Cameron straddles DeKalb and Clinton Counties.) [1] According to the official Official Manual State of Missouri the facility has a capacity of 1440[2] maximum security prisoners.

The facility opened in 1997 and is immediately adjacent to the Western Missouri Correctional Center, which opened in 1988.[3] Crossroads was the first Missouri prison to install a perimeter electric fence with a lethal charge.[4]

Among the inmates of Crossroads are the kidnapper Michael J. Devlin from Kirkwood, Missouri, serving three life sentences,[5] and the serial killer Lorenzo Gilyard.

References

  1. ↑ http://doc.mo.gov/DAI/Institutional_Facilities.php
  2. ↑ https://www.sos.mo.gov/BlueBook/2011-2012/6_Corr.pdf page 290
  3. ↑ http://www.cameron-mo.com/index.aspx?nid=224
  4. ↑ https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/Abstract.aspx?id=259465
  5. ↑ http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/michael-devlin-stabbed-in-prison-with-ice-pick/article_760735f6-7b7b-11e0-b48f-001a4bcf6878.html

Coordinates: 39°45′51″N 94°13′22″W / 39.764216°N 94.222736°W / 39.764216; -94.222736

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