The Department of Corrections says fatalities are mainly due to natural causes and an aging population. Advocates say more ...

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

Sai Varshith Kandula, 20, of St. Louis, will spend nearly a decade in prison after an attempted attack on the White House ...

It sends a terrible message, I think, that you can storm the seat of the national government and clearly commit crimes, be ...

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

Missouri legislators are debating a bill to expand restitution for wrongfully convicted individuals. Kevin Strickland, ...

Britney D. Hoffman-Kelly was last seen with her husband, Chadwick Kelly, on Dec. 14, according to the Marion County Sheriff’s ...

Missouri has little support available for exonerees after they're freed, despite the difficulties of obtaining housing, health care or a job. Senate Bill 36 would allow exonerated defendants to claim ...

A 68-year-old Missouri man has been sentenced to federal prison for running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors out of ...

A northern Missouri man who triggered a 19-hour standoff with law enforcement in 2022 has been sentenced to prison.Stephen J.

Proposals to add an independent review panel and prison ombudsman mirror the work done decades ago by a now-defunct prison ...