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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
