Houston, MO. – At 6:06 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022, offender Kaleb Smith, DOC No. 1254719, confined to South Central Correctional Center in Licking, Missouri, was pronounced dead at Texas County Memorial Hospital in Houston, Missouri.
Smith was a 27-year-old offender serving a 10-year sentence for second-degree burglary, and two 4-year sentences for stealing and forgery from Taney County, a 5-year sentence for 2 counts of possession of controlled substance from Christian County, and a 3-year sentence for unlawful possession of a firearm from St. Louis County. Smith was received in the Missouri Department of Corrections for this period of incarceration on Sept. 13, 2019.
An autopsy will be conducted.