Potosi Correctional Center (PCC) is a Missouri Department of Corrections prison located in Breton Township, unincorporated Washington County, Missouri, near Potosi. 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. As of 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.
Read more about Potosi Correctional Center: Death Row, Executions
Famous quotes containing the word center:
“The question of whether it’s God’s green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)