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Southeast Correctional Center
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Southeast Correctional Center is a state prison located in Mississippi County, Missouri. Rated capacity: 1,658. Reported population: 1,600. Security level: Maximum. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
Southeast Correctional Center is a Missouri Department of Corrections maximum security state prison for men located in Charleston, Mississippi County, Missouri. It opened in 2001, and has a maximum capacity of 1,658 inmates.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
1,658
Current population
1,600
Occupancy
97%
Year opened
2001
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
2001
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
The deputy warden at Southeast Correctional Center stated the prison could not respond to questions, including those about filed grievances, indicating a lack of transparency regarding administrative segregation.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 1/30
- Structural flags
- 5/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · 1 oversight report in the last 5 years
- · Substantial documented known-issues record
This facility scores 6. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 4 points above national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersReports
- marshall-project30 Sept 2022
-worst times in the hole. The Public Information Office of the Missouri Department of Corrections did not respond to all questions by publication time. The deputy warden at Southeast Correctional Center, where Nichols spent a year in administrative segregation, said the prison could not respond to questions, including those about his filed grievances. Michael J. Nichols, was born and raised in
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
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- USGS National Map structures — U.S. Geological Survey
- Wikidata (Q28231584)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Southeast Correctional Center. Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/southeast-correctional-center
"Southeast Correctional Center." World Prisons. Accessed October 23, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/southeast-correctional-center.
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