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Business
12:03 pm
Fri May 25, 2012

Hear a former inmate's story from MSP

Credit Samantha Sunne / KBIA
The administration building is one of the oldest on the prison site. Its decaying façade sits opposite a recently-opened federal courthouse across the street.

One man’s historic building is another’s nightmarish living conditions. Listen to the audio to hear former MSP inmate Joshua Kezer talks about what it was like to be incarcerated for 10 years in one of the oldest prisons in the U.S.

Business
12:00 pm
Thu May 24, 2012

Films, events, donations fund other aging prisons

Credit Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, Inc
Eastern State Penitentiary

The Missouri State Penitentiary is one of the oldest prisons in the country, but there are even older ones that survived both centuries of inmates and decades of decay. The Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield and the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia are now fully operating tourist sites.

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Business Beat
5:48 pm
Wed May 23, 2012

"Neglect" at MSP could be trouble in Jefferson City

Credit Samantha Sunne / KBIA
The entrance to the prison’s female department is slowly crumbling. This wing of the administration building is one stop on the popular MSP ghost tours.

An update on the EEZ in Columbia. Plus, some say the situation at the old Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City is getting desperate.

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Agriculture
12:32 pm
Fri April 27, 2012

Missouri National Guard agribusiness team returns home

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Members of the Missouri National Guard's Agribusiness Development Team 5 returned home to a welcome ceremony, Wednesday, April 25th.

Agribusiness Development Team Five has returned home, after an 11-month tour in Afghanistan. The Missouri National Guard team was tasked with helping was improve agricultural practices in Afghanistan.

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PM Newscasts
5:57 pm
Wed April 11, 2012

Newscast for April 11, 2012

Regional news coverage from the KBIA Newsroom, including:

  • Pretrial motions end in the Ryan Ferguson case.
  • The Missouri House passes a bill to change the state's workers' comp system.
  • Some state senators balk at changing gubernatorial election rules.

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