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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
