The South Central Correctional Center at Licking. Credit: FILE PHOTO

An inmate at the South Central Correctional Center at Licking died Saturday evening, the Missouri Department of Corrections said.

Lance Cypret, 19, died at 11:21 p.m. in a medical unit.

Cypret was serving a 15-year sentence for two counts of first-degree assault-serious physical injury to a special victim, one count of first-degree assault, one count of second-degree assault, two counts of armed criminal action, one count of arson, three counts of damage to jail property, one county of endangering a correctional employee by bodily fluid contact and two counts of first-degree robbery out of Lawrence County.

Cypret had been in prison since November 2024.

An autopsy will be conducted, the department said.

Isaiah Buse has served as the publisher of the Houston Herald since 2023. He started with the organization in 2019, and achieved a bachelor's degree in business administration in 2023. He serves on the...

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    1. My condolences to the family of Lance. I lost my son there at SCCC this past March. Still haven’t received the death certificate or his property.

    1. It’s crazy how this prison or who ever is making this newsletter sure wanted to make my son son like some pos. That’s fucked up half of those charges he isn’t even good for!

      1. I’m sorry for the loss of your son. Sadly the media and DOC make sure to list all charges to try and make sure the public doesn’t feel sorry for them. Like they aren’t human. I hope you get answers and you can heal some from the pain.

      2. I would like a update on are son Lance to from this place the ones they are given answers to did not give a dam about him so if anyone
        is keep up with this case Lance was taken to soon and that his to do with the system DHF and the person who took him and got locked up that persons no who am talking about

    2. The majority of the staff at Missouri Department of Corrections if rhe worse of the worse people. The training department & senior staff encourage staff to have no compassion, & treat each offender as though they were all Ax murders. These offenders have family who care, & love them. It would be nice for the D.O.C. to revamp their training to include kindness & compassion, empathy to offenders. Staff are continually bringing in drugs, fentenol, meth, heroine. Someone needs to be held accountable for murder! It!

  1. Ishiah buse is there a reason u will write shit about inmates and make them look god awful to the public but u can’t say not one positive thing about them. You and am the fucking prison r trash. Fucking disrespectful trash. I won’t wish nothing bad upon u bc ur doing that to urself. I hear nothing good about that prison and clearly nothing good about who works for them. My son was a good boy made some bad choices but in his heart he thought he was doing the right thing.

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