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
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