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 ...

to open before 2027 season According to a news release from the Indiana State Police, detectives began investigating a sexual assault that reportedly occurred in Jefferson County in July 2011.