Jefferson City officials hosted an open house meeting free for residents to visit the site at the Missouri State Penitentiary that will soon hold a riverside market and pavilion. “This is a ...

In 1957, after a riot at the Missouri State Penitentiary left four men dead and 50 wounded, state lawmakers created a ...

The Missouri Department of Corrections is giving few details, but advocates say the removal of the South Central Correctional ...

Missouri state law currently does not guarantee compensation for everyone exonerated after a wrongful conviction. A new bill seeks to change that by expanding eligibility and increasing payouts.

After an exceptionally lethal year at the prison, the warden was forced out, but families are still awaiting answers on the ...

The Department of Corrections says in-custody fatalities are mainly due to natural causes among an aging, sicker prison ...

JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri officials have paid a six-figure ... with convicted murderer Christopher Spates, who sued the state in 2018 after he was attacked in his cell at the South Central ...

From Kansas City, the state prison is the first of ... Pittman and Bates-Lamborn saw a success story at the penitentiary ...

Over the previous five years, deaths among people in state custody ... deaths in Missouri’s prisons. In the case with perhaps the most attention, the warden of the Jefferson City Corrections ...