Check SECC Release Records

Southeast Correctional Center Release Paths

Southeast Correctional Center is operated by the Missouri Department of Corrections. It houses adults serving state sentences at minimum, medium, and maximum security levels. The Mississippi County Sheriff's Office does not control a prison parole date, conditional-release date, discharge, or transfer. The Missouri Parole Board makes parole decisions, DOC staff carry out institutional release work, and the Division of Probation and Parole supervises many people after they leave prison.

Leaving SECC does not always mean entering the community. A transfer changes the assigned institution while DOC custody continues. Parole is discretionary Board release before sentence expiration and keeps the person in DOC legal custody. Conditional release is the statutory community portion of a qualifying sentence. A full-term release or final discharge can end the applicable sentence or supervision. The source record must identify both the new assigned place and overall status.

Note: A different assigned prison confirms movement within DOC, not release from state custody into the community.

Confirm Southeast Correctional Center Release

The Missouri DOC offender search is the first source for a person who is imprisoned or still under state supervision. Search by DOC number when possible because that identifier remains stable. If only a name is available, compare date of birth and cause details. Open the matching record and determine whether the assigned place is an institution or a field office. Read all visible sentence entries rather than relying on one date.

1. Use the DOC number or a careful name and identity match.
2. Check whether the assigned place is an institution or field location.
3. Compare each sentence and cause number with the Missouri court docket.
4. Use the nightly Sunshine file when a fully discharged person does not appear in the interactive search.
5. Request an explained or certified release record from DOC when the public fields do not settle the issue.

A field assignment can confirm that a person left the prison while remaining supervised. A different institution confirms transfer, not community release. No current result can also mean full discharge, a search mismatch, or a data issue. It does not erase the historical record.

Read Southeast Center Release Fields

Missouri DOC's nightly Sunshine data is the stronger historical path because the department says it covers people who are or have been under DOC supervision. It includes records dating as far back as 1974 and is updated nightly. The official layout is essential because its short field codes have precise meanings. Multiple rows may belong to one person, and one completed sentence can coexist with another active sentence.

Completed flag, $SCF

A “Y” means that sentence row is complete, not necessarily that all sentences are complete.

Minimum release date, $PC

The calculated minimum or conditional-release date for the active sentence.

Maximum release date, $PD

The sentence expiration date for that row.

Assigned place, $OLA

The institution or field location tied to the record.

Institution or field, $FOI

An “I” indicates an institution; “F” identifies field supervision.

Cause number, $CRT

The court identifier used to connect the DOC row to Case.net.

Concurrent sentences run together, while consecutive sentences stack. The Sunshine layout also identifies that relationship. Review every charge row, sentencing county, offense, and cause number before concluding that the person is discharged. A minimum date is not the same as the actual release transaction, and a maximum date for one sentence may not end other custody.

Note: Match the DOC cause number to the court case before relying on dates attached to a common name.

Southeast Center Release Dates

A presumptive parole release date is tentative. It depends on continued appropriate conduct and an acceptable release plan. A parole hearing or Board consideration date is not a release date. Missouri's minimum release date is tied to conditional release, while the maximum release date reflects sentence expiration. Each answers a different question. Court action, detainers, sentence relationships, treatment needs, conduct decisions, and Board action can alter the practical date.

Missouri § 558.011 divides many qualifying terms between a prison portion and a conditional-release portion, but statutory exclusions and case facts matter. The common “85 percent” shorthand applies only to covered law and cases, not every person at SECC. Good-time credit under § 558.041 is a DOC process for eligible state offenders. It is not an automatic promise and cannot be calculated from the sentence length alone.

Southeast Correctional Center Release Records

Southeast Correctional Center's official profile lists 300 E. Pedro Simmons Drive, Charleston, MO 63834, telephone 573-683-4409, and fax 573-683-7534. Visiting hours are not release-office or public-record hours and should not be used as such. For a current institutional question, use the facility contact. For a release certificate, face sheet, or public discharge fields, use the appropriate DOC records route.

Missouri DOC Constituent Services can be reached at 573-526-2695 or constituentservices@doc.mo.gov. The Office of Director Sunshine address is OD.SunshineRequest@doc.mo.gov. Give the full name, DOC number, birth date if needed, cause number, date range, and the exact public release or discharge record sought. Confidential medical, treatment, security, and most supervision case notes are not appropriate targets.

Southeast Center Release Planning

DOC Reentry Services says each Missouri state prison has a reentry center. Its release-planning terms include essential core documents such as a birth certificate, state identification card, Social Security card, military discharge certificate, and education credential. A person preparing to leave SECC should work with institutional staff before release. That work belongs to the state prison and its reentry process, not the county sheriff.

After release, District 14 provides the local supervision structure for Mississippi County. An older official guide identifies a main office at 102 Arthur Drive in Sikeston and a Charleston satellite at 305 S. Cooper. Because the guide is older, verify the address and phone through the current DOC facilities listing before relying on it. Institutional reentry, field supervision, and a final discharge record remain three distinct services.

Southeast Center Release Systems

Charleston is home to SECC, the adult Mississippi County jail, and a regional juvenile detention center. SECC holds minimum, medium, and maximum security levels. The juvenile center opened in 1999 and has 16 beds. The city name alone cannot identify the custodian. A local jail booking belongs to the sheriff. A state sentence and SECC movement belong to Missouri DOC. Juvenile placement follows restricted juvenile channels. The three buildings do not share a public release list.

This distinction prevents a common error. Someone can leave SECC for another state prison, leave SECC for a field office, or leave the county jail for DOC intake. All may be described casually as leaving custody in Charleston. Only the underlying institution-versus-field marker and receiving agency show whether the person entered the community. The Mississippi County release-record hub maps those systems and the court, MOVANS, BOP, and ICE fallbacks.

SECC houses people sentenced across Missouri. Release from the Charleston prison does not establish a Mississippi County conviction, and it does not show that the person will live in Mississippi County after release. Use the sentencing county, cause number, approved plan, and field assignment rather than the institution's street address.

Note: A Charleston prison address identifies the institution, not the sentencing county or the person's approved post-release residence.

Southeast Center Release Decisions

Case.net can show the judgment, sentence, cause number, jail credit, commitment, later court order, or probation history behind a state case. It proves what the court ordered, but DOC determines how its public fields describe current institution, supervision, and sentence status. Compare the cause number rather than assuming that a matching name identifies the right person.

The Missouri Parole Board publishes rules, contacts, and a time-to-serve schedule. That schedule is a sentence-based hearing cadence, not a public calendar of named hearings or a guarantee of release. A hearing may lead to a future release date or another hearing. No public name-searchable Board decisions database was found in the research. For a specific public decision or release record, use the offender search, registered notification, or a focused Board request at ParoleBoard.SunshineRequest@doc.mo.gov. Board decisions can take time after a hearing, and the hearing itself does not execute a release. Keep the decision, offender-status record, and later movement event separate. That sequence avoids presenting a favorable decision as proof that the person has already left SECC.