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Crossroads Correctional Center
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Crossroads Correctional Center is a state prison located in Dekalb County, Missouri. Rated capacity: 1,400. Reported population: 1,463. Security level: Maximum. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
Crossroads Correctional Center (CRCC) is a Missouri Department of Corrections state prison for men located in Cameron, DeKalb County, Missouri. (The town of Cameron straddles DeKalb and Clinton Counties.) According to the official Official Manual State of Missouri the facility has a capacity of 1,440 maximum security prisoners. The facility opened in 1997 and is immediately adjacent to the Western Missouri Correctional Center, which opened in 1988. Crossroads was the first Missouri prison to install a perimeter electric fence with a lethal charge. In January 2019, Missouri Governor Mike Parsons announced that Crossroads Correctional Center would be closing.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
1,400
Current population
1,463
Occupancy
105%
Year opened
1997
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1997
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.
Notable inmates
Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 5/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · Operating at 105% of design capacity
This facility scores 5. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 3 points above national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersData 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
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- USGS National Map structures — U.S. Geological Survey
- Wikidata (Q16890721)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Crossroads Correctional Center. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/crossroads-correctional-center
"Crossroads Correctional Center." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/crossroads-correctional-center.
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