The mystery of what happened to a U.S. woman who was tried in three killings before disappearing from a Mexican prison more ...

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 ...

A Missouri man was sentenced in federal court Monday for his role in a pair of kidnapping cases, including one in which he ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Freddie Lewis Tilton was sentenced for a kidnapping that left someone dead and another where he conspired with a Rogers man.

MISSOURI, USA — In 1957, after a riot at the MIssouri State Penitentiary left four men dead and 50 wounded, state lawmakers ...