Crossroads Correctional Center
- for the private prison in Montana, see Crossroads Correctional Facility
Location | 1115 SE Pence Road Cameron, Missouri, United States |
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Security class | Maximum security |
Capacity | 1,440 |
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, United States. (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 Seventy Four life sentences,[5] and the serial killer Lorenzo Gilyard.
References
- ^ http://doc.mo.gov/DAI/Institutional_Facilities.php
- ^ https://www.sos.mo.gov/BlueBook/2011-2012/6_Corr.pdf page 290
- ^ http://www.cameron-mo.com/index.aspx?nid=224
- ^ https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/Abstract.aspx?id=259465
- ^ http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/michael-devlin-stabbed-in-prison-with-ice-pick/article_760735f6-7b7b-11e0-b48f-001a4bcf6878.html