by Alisa Nelson | Dec 29, 2022 | Crime / Courts, News
Missouri is scheduled to execute a transgender inmate next week for the 2003 kidnapping, raping, and killing of Beverly Guenther in Earth City. Scott McLaughlin, who now goes by Amber, would be the first transgender person executed in the United States if the...
by Alisa Nelson | Jul 26, 2022 | Crime / Courts, Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt
To listen to the Show Me Today interview with Missouri Department of Corrections Spokesperson Karen Pojmann, click below. To help stop the flow of drugs and other illegal items into Missouri’s prisons, the state Department of Corrections says it has moved to a digital...
by Alisa Nelson | Feb 18, 2021 | Crime / Courts, News
The women’s prison in northeast Missouri’s Vandalia could have about half of its housing units permanently closed. Trevor Foley, with the state Department of Corrections (DOC), says Gov. Mike Parson’s new state budget proposal would make the change. Gov....
by Alisa Nelson | Feb 18, 2021 | Crime / Courts, News
Gov. Mike Parson’s FY2022 state budget proposal requests $58 million in hopes of getting Missouri completely out of debt in county jail reimbursements. For years, the state has not designated enough funding to pay counties and the city of St. Louis for part of a...
by Alisa Nelson | Feb 8, 2021 | Crime / Courts, 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...
