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Chillicothe Correctional Institution Chillicothe Correction Institution, or CCI, is a state-run medium security prison on the west bank of the Scioto River just outside Chillicothe, Ohio. It is located adjacent to Ross Correctional Institution and Hopewell Culture National Histo ...

, Ohio'' The Chillicothe Correctional Center is a state prison for women in Chillicothe,

Livingston County, Missouri Livingston County is a County (United States), county located in the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 14,557. Its county seat is Chillicothe, Missouri, Chil ...

, owned and operated by the

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. 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

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, the prison reported 252 positive cases among inmates and 27 among staff.

Notable inmates

Pam Hupp Pamela Marie Hupp ( Neumann; born October 10, 1958) is an American murderer serving a life sentence in Missouri's Chillicothe Correctional Center for the 2016 shooting of Louis Gumpenberger in her home in O'Fallon, Missouri. Hupp's claim that sh ...

- Convicted of murdering Louis Gumpenberger after entering an

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. *Gypsy Rose Blanchard - Pled guilty to 2nd degree murder and sentenced to 10 years in 2020 for the 2015 stabbing death of her mother, Dee Dee, who may have for years forced her to pretend she had serious health problems; subject of the HBO documentary ''

Mommy Dead and Dearest ''Mommy Dead and Dearest'' is a 2017 American documentary film directed by Erin Lee Carr about the murder of Dee Dee Blanchard, for which her daughter, Gypsy Rose Blanchard, and Gypsy's boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, pled guilty and were convict ...

'' and '' The Act.'' *Alyssa Bustamante - Pled guilty to 2nd degree murder and Armed Criminal Action of the murder of nine year old Elizabeth Olten in 2009. A few weeks later, she was sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of conditional release, and a consecutive sentence of 30 years.

References

External links

NRHP nomination form for old facility

Amateur video tour of old facility
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