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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.
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An appellate court has ordered the release of a Missouri woman whose murder conviction was overturned after she served 43 years in prison, but the state attorney general is still trying to keep her behind bars as the case is reviewed.
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KBIA went inside an honor dorm at the Missouri Department of Corrections' Algoa Correctional Center to learn more about the unique housing unit for "exemplary residents"
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The Missouri Department of Corrections is expanding its medication-assisted treatment program, making more types of medication available to more people in prison.
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Paige Spears has been incarcerated in the Missouri Department of Corrections for nearly 35 years. At the age of 26, he was given a life sentence plus 30 years for an armed robbery he committed in 1988 – where no one was physically injured. He’s now 62. We met up with his family in January-Wabash Park in north county St. Louis recently and spoke about Paige and how his absence for more than 30 years of incarceration has impacted them.
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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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Paige Spears has been incarcerated in the Missouri Department of Corrections for nearly 35 years. At the age of 26, he was given a life sentence plus 30 years for an armed robbery he committed in 1988 – where no one was physically injured. He’s now 62.Betty Cummings is his mother, and still lives in Ferguson, Missouri. She’s now 87-years-old and spoke about how the many years of Paige’s incarceration have impacted her.
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Paige Spears has been incarcerated in the Missouri Department of Corrections for nearly 35 years. He was given a life sentence plus 30 years for an armed robbery he committed in 1988 – where no one was physically injured. He spoke a little about how he’s changed while being incarcerated and what he hopes to accomplish if he’s released.
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Lonnie Lockhart Bey, Mataka Askari and Supreme Allah all previously served time in the Missouri Department of Corrections. Since being released, they have all chosen to work with at-risk youth in Columbia.
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Missouri has become the first state to join Reentry 2030, a national effort focused on improving people’s chances of success upon reentry to society after incarceration. Dozens of people working in Missouri corrections and reentry gathered in Jefferson City yesterday to celebrate and mark the launch of the initiative.