Several employees with the Missouri Department of Corrections have been recognized for taking life-saving measures in three separate incidents. Each one was presented with the Award of Valor at a ceremony this week in Jefferson City. Sgt. Scharihen Ward works as an...
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...
