by Alisa Nelson | Mar 7, 2022 | Crime / Courts, Health / Medicine, News
Newborn children could be raised for up to 18 months within Missouri’s prison system for women. The Missouri House of Representatives has given preliminary approval to a bill that would create a prison nursery program. Representatives Bruce DeGroot, R-Chesterfield,...
by Alisa Nelson | Jan 19, 2022 | News
Gov. Mike Parson has rolled out a $47 billion budget proposal for the next fiscal year. The plan is about a $12 billion increase over the current fiscal year’s budget, a nice chunk being made up of a flow of federal dollars and new revenue. Parson released his budget...
by Alisa Nelson | Dec 30, 2021 | Crime / Courts, News, Politics / Govt
Some Missouri Department of Corrections probation and parole officers are arresting those who violate probation and parole rules. The state agency has a test program underway that allows the officers to arrest violators in St. Louis, Kansas City, Columbia, Springfield...
by Alisa Nelson | Dec 30, 2021 | Crime / Courts, News, Politics / Govt
The Missouri Department of Corrections has added two units dedicated to the well-being of its staff. Director Anne Precythe tells Missourinet the agency reallocated some vacant positions to staff those units. “It was time to put our money where our mouth is,” she...
by Alisa Nelson | Dec 16, 2021 | News, Show Me Today
The Missouri Capitol is now in gingerbread form. A group of Algoa Correctional Center inmates in Jefferson City has whipped up the perfect spicy cookie ingredients to make a scaled back version of the Capitol. Mary Connell, a vocational teacher at the prison, says the...