Former inmates are appealing to Missouri lawmakers for changes in the prison system that would reward rehabilitation with the ...

Advocates and incarcerated people say prisoners were ordered outside during a winter storm and punished with segregation or discipline if they refused ...

Whether inmates die while in state custody is not used to measure the performance of Missouri’s private prison health care ...

The Missouri Department of Corrections is exploring new options and models to provide medical services in prisons across the state.

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Last summer, Kenneth Barrett recalls spending 46 days — about half the summer — in solitary confinement at Algoa Correctional ...

A southeast Missouri judge on Tuesday threw out all of the Missouri Department of Corrections’ defenses in a mother’s wrongful death case over her son’s suicide because the department “repeatedly ...

After repeated questions about missing deaths in the state’s existing logs, the department shared annual counts for the first time. How many people die each year in Missouri prisons? The question ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. JEFFERSON CITY • Missouri Corrections officials again faced scrutiny for the state's death penalty practices Monday, this time ...

JEFFERSON CITY — In August, Daniel Milner stood outside the state Capitol. In his arms, he held a box, the remains of his son inside. "I don't know what happened, I'm not being told what happened," he ...

ST. LOUIS — A St. Louis woman is pushing for more oversight in Missouri prisons, after her brother was murdered behind bars in 2014. Maria Miller has been fighting for more than 10 years, demanding ...

Jahi Hynes was placed in administrative segregation on April 3, 2021, after allowing the food port door in his cell to strike the hand of a corrections officer, causing minor injuries, and blocking ...