by [email protected] | Jul 16, 2026 | News, Show Me Today
Four Missouri prisons are trying out a prison reform technique aimed at creating a calmer, safer environment. University of Missouri Social Work Professor Kelli Canada says they’re using methods that worked well in Scandinavian prisons. She says some of the changes...
by [email protected] | Apr 10, 2026 | News, Show Me Today
What happens to a family when a mother is suddenly gone for decades? And how do you hold that family together from the inside of a prison? For one Missouri family, that question became reality when Patty Prewitt was convicted in the 1980s of killing her husband and...
by [email protected] | Feb 26, 2025 | Health / Medicine, News, Show Me Today
The Missouri Department of Corrections has opened a baby nursery in one of its women’s prisons. Alisa Nelson visits with Kim Perkins, the nursery program manager for the department, who says the goal is to change lives and communities through this...
by [email protected] | Jul 31, 2024 | News, Show Me Today
Drugs, cell phones, weapons, and other items are getting into Missouri’s 19 prisons through a variety of ways, including drones. Alisa Nelson talks to Trevor Foley, the acting director of the Missouri Department of Corrections, about a new unit designed to curb the...
by Marshall Griffin | Sep 20, 2023 | Crime / Courts, News
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...
