The women’s prison at Vandalia is expected to open a nursery in February that can serve up to 14 mothers and their babies for ...

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

An Missouri woman who was tried in three killings before disappearing from a prison in Mexico has died in Canada, where she ...

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 ...

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

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

Sandra Hemme spent 43 years in a Missouri prison for a murder she did not commit. Some estimates suggest that a false ...

23, 1954, as inmates of the Missouri State Penitentiary are taken to the prison dining hall following a riot that left four inmates dead and 50 wounded (Missouri State Highway Patrol photo via ...

Sharon Kinne was charged with killing her Missouri husband, her boyfriend's wife and a man she'd picked up in a Mexican bar.

Missouri is now the 10th state to offer a prion nursery to allow incarcerated mothers to keep their newborns behind bars after giving birth. The Women's Eastern Reception, Diagnostic, and Correctional ...