The mission of the St. Charles County Department of Corrections is to:

• Protect the citizens of St. Charles County.
  
• Maintain a close working relationship with other criminal justice agencies of this County, to enhance the overall law enforcement effort.
  
• Provide secure correctional institutions, and trained staff personnel, capable of providing for the safe and humane custody, control and security of all incarcerated personnel held by the SCCDOC facility.
  
• Enforce the general criminal laws of the State of Missouri and the ordinances of St. Charles County.

Goals

• Serve and Protect the citizens of St. Charles County.
• Provide a safe, secure and humane environment for the detention of
• Provide a safe and secure working environment, and provide for the health, morale and welfare of Department of Corrections personnel.
• Meet both the legally mandated and the nationally recognized correctional standards for adult correctional/detention facilities and programs.
  

Objectives

• Prevent and detect crime, and enforce the general criminal laws of the State of Missouri and the ordinances of St. Charles County.
• Maintain staffing levels adequate to insure that security and order are maintained at all times.
• Provide quality leadership, training and equipment to Department of Corrections personnel in support of their mission accomplishment.
• Provide a quality work place based on respect, dignity, equity and fairness, and free of discrimination or harassment of any kind.
• Maintain a safe and secure environment in which inmates/detainees can be held.
• Maintain a safe and secure working environment for Department of Corrections personnel.
• prompt and accurate intake/release of inmates/detainees; classify inmate/detainees based on offense and known criminal background; make housing unit/cell assignments based on classification system.
• Provide viable short-term sentencing alternatives to the courts.
• Maintain inmate/detainee population at levels adequate to prevent/control overcrowding.
• Meet nationally recognized standards regarding space allocation, medical services, food services, recreation, programs, protection of information and inmate/detainee access to the legal system.