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Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is calling for changes to the juvenile justice system that could lead prosecutors to charge more minors as adults.
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Incarceration can have a lasting impact on people, which makes community on the outside even more important. KBIA’s Rebecca Smith caught up with some former juvenile lifers on a cool, breezy day in August.
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Carlos Wade is an inmate at the southeast Missouri Correctional Center in the Bootheel. He's been in prison for 28 years – since he was 17 years old, and he maintains his innocence.
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A federal judge is ordering sweeping changes to how Missouri's parole board treats prisoners sentenced to life behind bars for crimes committed as…
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers have endorsed creating new minimum sentences for minors convicted of first-degree murder.The House voted…
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A Missouri Supreme Court ruling last month opens the door to possible parole for a Jasper County man and 80 other inmates who were convicted as juveniles…
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A U.S. Supreme Court ruling has reaffirmed that more than 80 Missouri inmates sentenced to life in prison as teenagers could have a chance at freedom.The…
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Two state senators proposed bills to reduce the sentencing for juveniles convicted of first-degree murder on Tuesday.Under the current law, the sentence…