Corrections Director Eager to Build New Prison

The Legislature is going to let the state borrow $120-Million more to build a new women’s prison at Chillicothe. But it has not approved letting the Corrections Department take bids from companies that combine architectural work with engineering plans....

Inmate Stabs Guard at Bonne Terre Prison

A guard at the Bonne Terre Prison is hospitalized, recovering from stab wounds to the face and eye, inflicted by an inmate. Prison officials say the woman was stabbed with a weapon made from a broken food tray. The inmate had finished about four years of a five-year...

Jefferson City Prison Inmate Dies

An inmate at the Jefferson City Correctional Center has died. Kenneth Dennis, a 73-year-old offender serving an 80-year sentence for kidnapping and rape charges from Atchison and Clinton Counties, died Monday of natural causes. He had been an inmate since August of...