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 ...

Two inmates at separate Missouri Department of Corrections facilities died on Monday, the DOC stated in separate press ...

A confrontational legislative hearing Monday — with a witness calling a state senator a fascist and lawmakers battling over ...

Missouri's WERDCC prison opens a nursery wing to allow incarcerated mothers to care for their babies, with hopes of reducing ...

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

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

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

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

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, ...

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

MISSOURI, USA — In 1957, after a riot at the MIssouri State Penitentiary left four men dead and 50 wounded, state lawmakers created a bipartisan committee to keep watch over the prison system.