by Alisa Nelson | Nov 24, 2020 | Crime / Courts, Health / Medicine, News
The Missouri State Conference of the NAACP, American Civil Liberties Union and several other organizations are hosting a virtual town hall this evening at 7 p.m. to talk about COVID-19 outbreaks within Missouri’s prisons. Families of those impacted by COVID inside...
by Alisa Nelson | Oct 22, 2020 | Crime / Courts, Health / Medicine, News
COVID-19 has claimed the lives of five state prisoners and two state prison workers. Missouri Department of Corrections spokeswoman Karen Pojmann says six of the deaths have happened since September. The other one happened in April. Pojmann says in all of the offender...
by Alisa Nelson | Apr 21, 2020 | Crime / Courts, Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt
The Missouri Department of Corrections (MODOC) has received notification that an inmate at Southeast Correctional Center (SECC), a men’s state prison in Charleston has tested positive for the coronavirus. A press release from the department says the offender has...
