Justice Lassiter committed suicide in March 2023. His family has filed a lawsuit against the state, DOC commissioner and ...

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

It’s a problem officials with Jefferson County’s Detention Center say is a “constant battle”, after a jailer had to be taken to the hospital after she was exposed to fentanyl while sorting mail ...

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 ...

Sen. David Gregory’s bill calls for a bounty hunter program to find undocumented immigrants. It also sets up a hotline to ...

Missouri state law currently does not guarantee compensation for everyone exonerated after a wrongful conviction. A new bill ...

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

Two of those items, the museum said on Monday, will be the plain, old-fashioned chair that Thomas Jefferson used while drafting the Declaration in Philadelphia in 1776, and the hard metal prison bench ...

A Jefferson City woman who volunteered at a private ... First-degree sexual abuse is a Class C felony in Missouri with a three-to-10-year prison sentence. Sentencing is scheduled for April 14.

A Jefferson City woman who volunteered at a private school is set to be sentenced in April after she pleaded guilty last week to sexual abuse for a relationship with a student.

According to Jefferson County DA Jeff Burkett, Harris appeared in court earlier this month where he was sentenced to serve 4 to 8 years in state prison for each charge. That equates to a total ...