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Dr. Kelli Canada, associate director of research in MU’s school of social work, has received $2.8 million from Arnold Ventures to lead a project to improve five Missouri prisons over five years.
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The Missouri Department of Corrections said 38-year-old Othel Moore died n December after cells in a housing unit were searched for weapons, drugs and other contraband.
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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. We met up with his family in January-Wabash Park in north county St. Louis recently and spoke about Paige and how his absence for more than 30 years of incarceration has impacted them.
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DeVonte Jones began to show signs of schizophrenia as a teenager. His first public episode was nine years ago at a ball game at Wavering Park in Quincy,...
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Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens appeared in court Thursday as jury selection got underway in a criminal trial accusing him of taking a compromising photo of a…
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This story is part of True/False Conversations, a series of in-depth interviews with the filmmakers of this year's True/False Film Fest. Find the rest of…
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Missouri’s Restorative Justice Program gives offenders the opportunity to repay the community for their crimes with community service and labor.The…
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Two St. Louis men are headed to federal prison for seven years each for planning a bomb attack targeting the Ferguson police chief and other officials…
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The Missouri Department of Corrections is converting a Kansas City prison release center into a new type of facility.The newly named Kansas City Re-Entry…
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Efforts to cut Missouri's prison population appear to be working, but a new report shows that's not enough to save the state money.A recent Sentencing and…