The Missouri Department of Corrections has opened a baby nursery in one of its women’s prisons. Alisa Nelson visits with Kim Perkins, the nursery program manager for the department, who says the goal is to change lives and communities through this...
Boosting public safety, fighting Missouri’s fentanyl crisis, and fixing the state’s childcare needs are all priorities in Governor Mike Kehoe’s state budget proposal. Alisa Nelson sits down with the governor to have him lay out his first spending...
A probation officer has been honored for helping people escape from a homeless camp in Kansas City that caught fire. Missouri Department of Corrections parole officer Kevin Harwood joins Marshall Griffin.
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...
A judge in southwest Missouri’s Greene County has held the acting Director of the state Department of Corrections in contempt of court for not releasing an elderly prison inmate whose conviction was overturned. Howard Roberts, 82, was sentenced to 20 years in prison...
