by admin | Mar 21, 2000 | News
A move in the Missouri House to create an advocate for prisoners is changed into proposal to create an advocate for the victims of crime. A few state lawmakers have pushed for the creation of an independent Corrections Ombudsman for the past couple of years, someone...
by admin | Mar 21, 2000 | Politics / Govt
A tactic to provide leverage when negotiating over the $17-Billion dollar state budget with the Senate sparks controversy in the House. State Representative Quincy Troupe of St. Louis shifted $20-Million out of the Corrections budget and into Social Services, lighting...
by admin | Mar 21, 2000 | News
The people who run the oldest jail in southeast Missouri hope their voters approve a special sales tax next month to replace it. The Scott County jail in Benton is 68 years old. It has remained open only under a special agreement with federal judges. Sheriff Bill...
by admin | Mar 21, 2000 | Crime / Courts
A Potosi prison inmate doing two life sentences has been found dead in his cell. Inmate Eugene Fleer was in prison for drowning a three-year-old boy and his 15-year-old babysitter in a bathtub in a Fenton-area apartment. That was in 19-86. He was arrested in Columbia...
by admin | Mar 20, 2000 | Crime / Courts
Plans for a new state prison in Jefferson City can move forward now that landowners east of the city have sold the property. A protracted fight about the land ended when Jim and Marilyn Hoffman accepted the state’s $2-point-1 Million offer. State Design and...