[2] The facility opened in January 1963, built from a design by St. Louis architect Marcel Boulicault.

[3] In July 1983, a correctional officer named Thomas Jackson was stabbed to death as he attempted to remove several inmates intoxicated on homemade wine.

In May 2013, former Moberly inmate Anthony Johnson was indicted on federal identity theft charges for stealing $80,000 through telephone fraud from within the prison, then depositing the proceeds into inmates' prison accounts.

[5] In January 2025, inmate James Pointer bled to death from a dialysis wound.

Witnesses to his death say that medical staff, contracted through Centurion Health, had failed to prevent Pointer's bleeding before and that other dialysis patients incarcerated at Moberly were afraid to continue treatment.