Missouri sheriffs are asking the state legislature to address their priorities, including tightening Missouri sentencing laws ...

After a contentious budget committee hearing last Thursday ended with a disagreement in philosophy, there was also an agreement that the Director of the Missouri State Public ...

These thoughtful touches gained the admiration of Maggie Burke, a former warden at the Illinois Department of Corrections who worked in that state’s prison nursery and who helped advocate for the ...

James Pointer was in his housing unit at the Moberly Correctional Center when the cap on a femoral catheter became dislodged.

The committee responsible for funding the Missouri State Public Defender’s Office met Thursday (2/13) and after a contentious hearing — refused to hear the ...

Estimates project that the number of felons required to serve extended prison terms would more than triple if the bills pass.

An aerial view of Moberly Correctional Center in Randolph County (Missouri Department of Corrections photo via ... for deaths at the Algoa and Jefferson City correctional centers show that in ...

Weaks is a guardian for 500 people in St. Louis County. He says the list is growing, and the clients are becoming younger, such as mentally challenged people aging out of foster care.

The inside of the nursery, which is on prison ... future of Missouri families. On her way into Vandalia, a town of about 3,000 people situated about 75 miles northeast of Jefferson City, Boykin ...

The Jefferson City Historic Preservation ... It was named a Landmark in 2006. The Prison Wall, Lafayette Street and Capitol Avenue — "The Walls," as the Missouri State Penitentiary was commonly ...