by Alisa Nelson | Jul 26, 2022 | Crime / Courts, Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt
To listen to the Show Me Today interview with Missouri Department of Corrections Spokesperson Karen Pojmann, click below. To help stop the flow of drugs and other illegal items into Missouri’s prisons, the state Department of Corrections says it has moved to a digital...
by Alisa Nelson | Jun 16, 2022 | Crime / Courts, Education, Entertainment, News
A world-renowned Nigerian artist is in Missouri – and paid a visit Wednesday to inmates and other prison workers at the Jefferson City Correctional Center. Ibiyinka Alao has quite the fan club at the institution on No More Victims Road. He shook hand after hand and...
by Joey Parker | May 3, 2022 | Crime / Courts, News
Twenty-six years after James and Zelma Long were murdered execution-style in their DeSoto, Missouri, home, their killer met his death. Carman Deck was executed at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Tuesday evening. In the...
by Alisa Nelson | Mar 19, 2022 | News
The Missouri House of Representatives could debate a bill soon that would incentivize non-violent ex-convicts to get a full-time job. State Representative Derek Grier, R-Chesterfield, wants to give those on probation or parole 20 days off their sentence for every 30...
by Alisa Nelson | Mar 18, 2022 | Business, Crime / Courts, Education, News, Science / Technology, Show Me Today
The Missouri Department of Corrections has teamed up with a St. Louis nonprofit organization to offer computer programming classes to some state prisoners nearing release. In 2018, the nonprofit, called LaunchCode, tested out the program within Potosi Correctional...