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Inmate photographs (mug shots) became a required part of inmate reception in 1928. New prisoners had their photograph taken when arriving at the penitentiary. Inmates who entered the penitentiary prior to 1928 did not have mug shots created.
24 sty 2023 · Nearly a hundred years before Alcatraz, there was the Missouri State Penitentiary. On an unseasonably warm afternoon in Jefferson City, Missouri, the January sun shines high over the prison...
27 maj 2015 · A new tool is online for those who want to research people who spent time in Missouri’s historic state prison. The Secretary of State’s office has added to its other online, searchable ...
28 cze 2017 · The tour guide shared facts about the facility while we stood in the prison yard. Victim memorial in the main prison yard. The Missouri prison – nicknamed “The Walls” because of the large stone blocks that encircled the prison – opened in 1836, the same month that the Alamo fell in Texas.
22 sie 2017 · The prison’s buildings and any nearby homes were built by inmates, and by 1885 six major shoe companies were taking advantage of the prisoners’ unpaid labor.
The Missouri State Penitentiary was designed by John Haviland and constructed in the early 1830s to serve the newly admitted (1821) state of Missouri.
22 wrz 2014 · The state spent the next 50 years adding to its prison system, culminating with the construction of the maximum-security Jefferson City Correctional Center, where roughly 1800 inmates were...
