Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC)

Lawmakers voted to repeal the Missouri Incarceration Reimbursement Act, a 1988 law now seen as a property rights violation and barrier to a fresh start after prison.

A St. Louis-based nonprofit legal advocacy firm has sued the State of Missouri, saying that the excessive heat at a prison in Jefferson City during the summer months violates the constitutional rights of the people who are held there.

According to the Missouri Department of Corrections, approximately 19,000 people are released from prison every year. KBIA’s Rebecca Smith brings us the story of one’s man release from prison – after 37 years.

Deandra Buchanan, an inmate at the Jefferson City Correctional Center is serving a first degree murder sentence for killing his girlfriend and two others in 2000.

In 2022, the Missouri State legislature passed a law calling for the Missouri Department of Corrections to open a nursery - allowing moms to stay with their infants for up to 18 months within prisons. KBIA’s Rebecca Smith recently attended the opening of the facility and has more on how they aim to benefit mothers, infants and other inmates.

James Pointer was in his housing unit at the Moberly Correctional Center when the cap on a femoral catheter became dislodged

‘This program is going to give women the building blocks to live a better life, and then that is going to overflow into their children, and then their children’s children,” said one caregiver in the prison nursery.

Historically high deaths, contraband infiltration and costly litigation cited as issues that could be addressed by independent review panel, prison ombudsman.

Missouri prison inmates and the staff who supervise them used the same curriculum to earn associate's degrees.

Prison can be a lonely, violent place. But KBIA’s Rebecca Smith has the story of one program - or more specifically, one Missouri prison resident who’s changing the men around him.