missouri prisons

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…

A three-county pilot program that seeks to improve community services for former prisoners is rolling out in Missouri. Offering an array of so-called…

A lawsuit alleging the Missouri Department of Corrections systematically denies medical treatment to prisoners with chronic hepatitis C has taken a big...

A special Missouri legislative committee is offering recommendations on how to reform the state's prison system in response to reports of sexual…

Missouri House members want more information on how much money the state is paying in lawsuit settlements and judgments.House members voted 150-1 on…