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Chillicothe Correctional Center
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Chillicothe Correctional Center is a state prison located in Livingston County, Missouri. Rated capacity: 1,636. Reported population: 1,529. Security level: Maximum. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
see also the Chillicothe Correctional Institution, Ohio The Chillicothe Correctional Center is a state prison for women in Chillicothe, Livingston County, Missouri, owned and operated by the Missouri Department of Corrections. The $120 million facility opened in late 2008, and with a capacity of 1740 inmates at a mix of security levels. The previous prison, in downtown Chillicothe at 1500 Third Street, had been established in 1888 as the Chillicothe Industrial Home for Girls. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the prison reported 252 positive cases among inmates and 27 among staff.
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Capacity
1,636
Current population
1,529
Occupancy
93%
Year opened
2008
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
2008
Region
Missouri
Security level
Maximum
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
This facility scores 0. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 2 points below national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersReports
- marshall-project12 Apr 2021
Edwards, who is incarcerated at Chickasaw County Regional Facility. In Missouri, “incarcerated people call themselves ‘inmates’ or ‘offenders,’” according to Stacy Lynn Powell of Chillicothe Correctional Center. Jonathan Gittens, who was an orientation facilitator in New York prisons before his release, told new arrivals a story to help them understand why “incarcerated people” is the most
Data completeness
74%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries
- HIFLD dataset query
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q28231562)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Chillicothe Correctional Center. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/chillicothe-correctional-center
"Chillicothe Correctional Center." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/chillicothe-correctional-center.
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