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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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On a side street off of Business Loop 70 in Columbia is an unassuming office. Large dark windows make it hard to see inside. But the moment you walk in, you’re greeted by the booming voice of Julian Jackman, the executive director of People Embracing Another Choice Effectively, or P.E.A.C.E. Jackman was in prison for 17 years. Now, he helps others who have recently come out of prison.P.E.A.C.E. helps people get identification, housing or whatever else they might need to reenter society after incarceration. But even before that, they work on getting people released as well as who they’re going to live with.
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It remains unclear whether thousands of Missouri welfare recipients will lose benefits if they opt for medical marijuana.The Missouri Department of Social…
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Seventeen would no longer be the age at which Missouri defendants are tried as adults under a measure that has won initial approval in the Senate.The St.…
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A special committee appointed to study operations at the Jackson County Detention Center has released its final report with several suggestions for…
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The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing whether to intervene in the scheduled Missouri execution of an Illinois man condemned to death in the 1995 killing of a…
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A federal judge has stayed Missouri's upcoming execution over concerns that the Department of Corrections obstructed the clemency process. Inmate John...
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Oklahoma, a state with numerous ties to the controversy over Missouri's lethal injection procedures, on Tuesday night botched what the state had hoped...
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An Oklahoma compounding pharmacy has supplied Missouri with the drug it's used three times to execute inmates, despite the fact that the pharmacy isn't...
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A Missouri House panel has canceled a scheduled hearing about the state's controversial execution procedures.Committee Chairman Jay Barnes says he called…