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Health & Wealth Report
10:44 am
Tue May 15, 2012

Stories from prison: roar!

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Callion Barnes.
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LaVonda Evans and Dontavia, her adopted daughter.
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Tipton.
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The Abendscheins have been bringing children's books to prisons in Missouri since 1998.
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About 80 percent of the women at the Chillicothe prison have children.
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Suretta Collins has a four-year-old daughter. "I'm hoping she'll take me back," said Collins.
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Outside the St. Louis Zoo.
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Orangutans behind glass. "I got a little choked up, because I know how it feels to be caged up," said Barnes. "To be confined to just a little space -- it hurts."
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"Beautiful time, having an awesome time. What about you?"
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In Missouri state prisons, about 60 percent of inmates have kids. That's 18,000 moms and dads behind bars – and tens of thousands of kids on the other side. To help those parents and kids connect, volunteers make their way through the metal detectors at Missouri state prisons with big tubs of blank tapes and CDs, stamped envelopes, and lots of children's books. 

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Politics
2:07 pm
Wed April 11, 2012

Mo. House passes bill to reduce jail lawsuits

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Missouri House members have approved legislation that supporters hope will reduce lawsuits stemming from suicides by inmates at jails and prisons.
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Missouri House members have approved legislation that supporters hope will reduce lawsuits stemming from suicides by inmates at jails and prisons.

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Politics
4:24 pm
Tue February 14, 2012

Bill calls for review of comparative cost of death penalty

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Democrat State Senator Joe Keaveny introduced Senate Bill 786 Monday, which would require state auditors to compare the cost of the death penalty with other sentences.

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10:28 am
Thu January 19, 2012

Newscast for January 19, 2012

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Regional news from the KBIA newsroom, including:

  • Missouri gets 'F' for tobacco control policies, in new report from American Lung Association

  • FDA challenging the use of antibiotics in animals

  • MO chief justice wants to shrink prison

 

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