One of two men convicted of killing a southwest Missouri sheriff in the 1980’s has died. The state Department of Corrections said Shelby Debler, 67, died Wednesday at the University of Missouri Hospital in Columbia after being taken there from Jefferson City...
A world-renowned Nigerian artist is in Missouri – and paid a visit Wednesday to inmates and other prison workers at the Jefferson City Correctional Center. Ibiyinka Alao has quite the fan club at the institution on No More Victims Road. He shook hand after hand and...
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...
In July, the day Jonathan Irons had been waiting for finally arrived. He walked out of the Jefferson City Correctional Center as a free man. Waiting for him was a team of supporters, including the woman he now calls his wife. WNBA star Maya Moore and Irons announced...
WNBA star Maya Moore has scored a win in the courtroom by helping to get a St. Louis area man freed from prison this month. The Missouri Western District Court of Appeals granted the release of Johnathan Irons, who was locked up for more than 20 years for a violent...
