The Missouri Department of Corrections has teamed up with a St. Louis nonprofit organization to offer computer programming classes to some state prisoners nearing release. In 2018, the nonprofit, called LaunchCode, tested out the program within Potosi Correctional...
The Missouri Capitol is now in gingerbread form. A group of Algoa Correctional Center inmates in Jefferson City has whipped up the perfect spicy cookie ingredients to make a scaled back version of the Capitol. Mary Connell, a vocational teacher at the prison, says the...
In early December, the Missouri Department of Corrections began installing 1,400 air purifying devices and using disinfectant sprayers within the prison system. Since then, department spokesperson Karen Pojmann tells Missourinet the number of coronavirus cases has...
After two years in the making, a group of more than one dozen inmates at the prison in northwest Missouri’s Cameron has finished putting together a hot rod from the ground up. The souped-up beast will be competing among roughly 200 to 300 others this Sunday at a car...
