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...
Drugs, cell phones, weapons, and other items are getting into Missouri’s 19 prisons through a variety of ways, including drones. Alisa Nelson talks to Trevor Foley, the acting director of the Missouri Department of Corrections, about a new unit designed to curb the...
A former officer at northern Missouri’s Chillicothe Correctional Center has been awarded $1 million as a result of a lawsuit he filed against the prison. A Cole County judge ruled in favor of the former officer. The unnamed officer had filed a racial discrimination...
New leadership will soon take over at the Missouri Department of Corrections. Director Anne Precythe’s last day on the job will be December 5. Precythe told Missourinet the time is right to go back to North Carolina to be with her family. “I left my children. I...
