Missouri’s prison system is facing a crisis that endangers not just the men and women behind bars, but everyone involved. The problem? A critical shortage of staff has left the system scrambling to ...

The “mortality” of Missouri prisoners is not a performance standard for the state’s health care contractor, the MDOC director said this month.

A law passed this year gives the state the authority to treat arrested people within jails or in an outpatient basis if the person can be safely released and treated. Missouri lawmakers took a step ...

Two weeks later, pathologist Keith Norman Norton, M.D., evaluated the remains of a “well-developed, obese man,” ruling that ...

Fulton Reception and Diagnostic Center is one of a handful of Missouri prisons that is not fully air conditioned. Funding was approved to install air conditioning in 2023, but it will take years for ...

In 1957, after a riot at the Missouri State Penitentiary left four men dead and 50 wounded, state lawmakers created a bipartisan committee to keep watch over the prison system. The 12 members of the ...

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 ...

Former inmates are appealing to Missouri lawmakers for changes in the prison system that would reward rehabilitation with the possibility of early release.

*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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Five prison guards have ...