Featured Prison: Northeast Correctional Center

The Northeast Correctional Center in Bowling Green, Missouri, opened in 1988 and has a capacity of 1,975 high - medium security inmates.

In 2008, inmates and filmakers collaborated on several projects including:

The single-channel video Time and Time Again was produced during an extended collaborative project with inmates at Northeast Correctional Center (NECC), a close-security men’s prison in Bowling Green, Missouri. The script is written as a long list of common clichés, proverbs, and other familiar sayings about time, arranged to create a through-line as it progresses. Filmed inside the prison, the phrases are recited by a group of 20 actors from NECC and are edited into quick succession. The language is by nature generic and overly familiar, phrases we have heard over and over, but who is speaking them makes all the difference to their meaning.

Jan Estep » Time and Doing Time

Recently, NECC has been in the news because an inmate at the facility threatened to kill President Barack Obama in a letter. The inmate, Josh Randall McCallum, faces federal charges that could land him five more years in prison.

Missouri inmate charged with threatening to kill President Obama in letter mailed from prison

MO Department of Corrections - Northeast Correctional Center

Northeast Correctional Center - Missouri - Profile - Prison Talk

Alberici Enterprises: State of Missouri Northeast Correctional Center

Northeast Correctional Center

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