Whether inmates die while in state custody is not used to measure the performance of Missouri’s private prison health care ...

The Missouri Department of Corrections is exploring new options and models to provide medical services in prisons across the ...

Missouri Appleseed is requesting state funding for doulas to support incarcerated women during pregnancy and childbirth, ...

As more women enter state prisons while pregnant, lawmakers and corrections officials are expanding prison nursery programs, ...

A judge wrote that the Missouri attorney general’s office “repeatedly offered excuses ranging from secretarial blame to ...

VANDALIA, Missouri ( KSHB) -- A baby boom at the Missouri Department of Corrections' women's prison in Vandalia, Missouri, ...

A research project could lead to improved mental well-being for Missouri prison inmates and staff members. By changing the space in which inmates live, along with their interactions and communication ...

UPDATE 2:30 PM: The hostage has been released and the suspect is in custody, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Karen Pojmann, Communications Director for the Missouri Department of ...

For six years, Honesty Jade Bishop was held in solitary confinement in a Missouri prison after she was sexually assaulted by her cellmate. The Department of Corrections deemed that Bishop, a ...

KSHB 41 reporter Megan Abundis covers Kansas City, Missouri, including neighborhoods in the southern part of the city. This nursery program caught her eye online, and she wanted to hear from those ...