Jefferson City — Inmates within Missouri’s prison system will no longer be allowed to get reading materials purchased by family and friends. The Missouri Department of Corrections announced the move. The department said the change is meant to limit the ways...
Puppies for Parole is a rehabilitation program for inmates across Missouri.. Christy Bertelson is the author of a new book about the program titled, “Puppies for Parole: Rescue, Rehabilitation, and Redemption in Missouri’s Prisons. She joins Marshall Griffin to...
Missouri has created mobile custody units to help battle the corrections officer shortages within the state’s prison system. Alisa Nelson talks to Travis Terry, with the Missouri Department of Corrections, about these special units.
Missouri has roughly 13,000 inmates released from prison each year. To help them get on the right track and stay on it, Missouri has become the first state in the nation to join a national initiative, called Reentry 2030. By 2030, the Missouri Department of...
Leonard Taylor took his last breath Tuesday at the state prison in Bonne Terre. He was declared dead at 6:16 p.m. The 58-year-old St. Louis man was convicted of the 2004 killings of his girlfriend, Angela Rowe, and her three young children in St. Louis County. Taylor...
