missouri prisons

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.

Four former Missouri guards have pleaded not guilty to murder in the death of a Black man in prison, and a fifth has pleaded not guilty to accessory to involuntary manslaughter.

Attorneys said other inmates witnessed blood coming out of the mouth and ears of Othel Moore as he died.

The goal of the program is to lower recidivism, as well as keep people out of the criminal justice system in the first place.

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.

Thousands of Missourians are currently on probation and parole, and while the two terms are often used together, they affect a person’s life in completely different ways.Mary Beth Lammey, the policy and procedure coordinator at the Department of Corrections, has worked at the DOC for over 25 years. She sat down with KBIA’s Katie Quinn to talk about the differences between probation and parole and her advice for the justice-involved.

Gov. Mike Parson and Missouri Department of Corrections Director Anne Precythe discussed how Missouri is handling COVID-19 within state prisons during a…

Right now when former offenders are released from prison into Boone County, they’re sent to a parole officer stationed in a strip mall on Providence Road.…

A survey behind a proposal to provide women in Missouri prisons free access to sanitary products found that about 80% of respondents made their own…

The last time Joseph Johnson was a free man, the world was different.It was 1994 – Bill Clinton was president, Michael Jordan was playing baseball, and…