James Pointer’s life sentence in the Missouri Department of Corrections ended abruptly last week when he bled to death from ...

Pregnant women who are incarcerated will move into the facility next week. For now, only women with 18 months or less to ...

"This program is going to give women the building blocks to live a better life, and then that is going to overflow into their ...

Missouri's plan to build a second penitentiary sparked controversy when Louis Houck allegedly attempted to bribe officials to ...

Missouri is now the 10th state to offer a prion nursery to allow incarcerated mothers to keep their newborns behind bars after giving birth. The Women's Eastern Reception, Diagnostic, and Correctional ...

A Columbus man who shot two men in Schuyler last spring, killing one of them, was ordered to spend decades in prison on ...

Kim Perkins is the nursery program director and said she is excited for the effect the program will have on the families ...

A former sheriff’s deputy accused of causing a crash that killed his wife in 2023 will avoid time in prison, Missouri ...

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections plans to have the outside food vendor assume food service operations by late summer.

MISSOURI, USA — In 1957, after a riot at the MIssouri State Penitentiary left four men dead and 50 wounded, state lawmakers created a bipartisan committee to keep watch over the prison system.