by Mike Lear | Nov 5, 2013 | News
See our updated story here An announcement regarding the future of Missouri State Penitentiary will be made tomorrow in Jefferson City. Governor Jay Nixon says he will join Senator Mike Kehoe and local leaders in Jefferson City to make the announcement. Tours of the...
by Mike Lear | Oct 30, 2013 | Entertainment, News
The History Channel show “American Pickers” will feature Missouri State Penitentiary on the episode that airs tonight. The show’s stars, Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz, travel primarily the Midwest buying antiques and collectibles. They were in Jefferson...
by Mike Lear | Oct 2, 2013 | News
Tours of Missouri’s historic State Penitentiary have been called off for 2013 with two months left in the tour season. The Jefferson City Conventions and Visitors Bureau is in the process of notifying 2,500 guests that their tours have been cancelled....
by Mike Lear | Sep 27, 2013 | News
Sixty years ago tomorrow is the anniversary of one of the most famous kidnappings in the nation’s history, and it tied together Missouri’s two largest cities. On the morning of September 28, 1953, a woman walked into the Notre Dame De Sion Catholic School...
by Mike Lear | Sep 26, 2013 | News
Tours of the historic Missouri State Penitentiary have been put on hold. A statement from the Jefferson City Convention and Visitors Bureau says the “property owners are assessing some site issues.” The prison is owned by the state and overseen by the...