by Alisa Nelson | Jun 16, 2022 | Crime / Courts, Education, Entertainment, News
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...
by Alisa Nelson | Feb 8, 2021 | Crime / Courts, Legislature, News
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...
by Alisa Nelson | Sep 17, 2020 | Crime / Courts, News, Sports Features
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...
by Alisa Nelson | Jul 14, 2020 | Crime / Courts, News, Sports Features
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...
by admin | May 26, 2020 | Crime / Courts, News, Politics / Govt
An inmate who’s been incarcerated for 37 years for the high-profile murder of an elderly woman in eastern Missouri has died in a Jefferson City prison. 64-year-old Harold Felker was convicted of second degree murder and first degree robbery for the August 1982 death...