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

Last summer, Kenneth Barrett recalls spending 46 days — about half the summer — in solitary confinement at Algoa Correctional Center, a minimum security prison in Jefferson City. In segregation, he ...

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

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 ...

For years, the public had no way to know just how many people died in Missouri’s prisons, a Marshall Project investigation found, because the state Department of Corrections wasn’t counting. Instead ...

VANDALIA, Missouri ( KSHB) -- A baby boom at the Missouri Department of Corrections' women's prison in Vandalia, Missouri, has brought new hope to incarcerated mothers, with 16 babies born in 2025 to ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. JEFFERSON CITY • Missouri Corrections officials again faced scrutiny for the state's death penalty practices Monday, this time ...

JEFFERSON CITY — In August, Daniel Milner stood outside the state Capitol. In his arms, he held a box, the remains of his son inside. "I don't know what happened, I'm not being told what happened," he ...

ST. LOUIS — A St. Louis woman is pushing for more oversight in Missouri prisons, after her brother was murdered behind bars in 2014. Maria Miller has been fighting for more than 10 years, demanding ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Last summer, Kenneth Barrett recalls spending 46 days — about half the summer — in solitary confinement at Algoa Correctional ...