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...
One of two men convicted of killing a southwest Missouri sheriff in the 1980’s has died. The state Department of Corrections said Shelby Debler, 67, died Wednesday at the University of Missouri Hospital in Columbia after being taken there from Jefferson City...
Missouri has created special mobile units of correctional officers to help fight staffing shortages within the state’s 19 prisons. Travis Terry, the director of the Division of Adult Institutions with the Missouri Department of Corrections, said the officers are put...
A convicted sex offender who escaped from a hospital in St. Louis County is back in prison. Tommy Boyd, 45, is serving a 30-year sentence at the Potosi Correctional Center in eastern Missouri for enticing a child to commit sex acts. He’d been taken to Mercy Hospital...
A program designed to help Missouri inmates to gain job skills to use after they’re released is not working as intended, according to State Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick. He told Missourinet that the Department of Corrections has instead primarily chosen inmates with...
