The Missouri Department of Corrections is a state agency of Missouri that operates state prisons. It is headquartered in Jefferson City. It currently houses over 30,000 inmates.
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Famous quotes containing the words missouri and/or department:
“Then they seen it, the old Missouri River shinin’ in the moon and across it the lights of St. Louis.”
—Dudley Nichols (1895–1960)
“The African race evidently are made to excel in that department which lies between the sensuousness and the intellectual—what we call the elegant arts. These require rich and abundant animal nature, such as they possess; and if ever they become highly civilised, they will excel in music, dancing and elocution.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)