by admin | Jun 28, 2006 | Crime / Courts
The State Corrections Department is under judicial pressure to clean up its execution procedures. Federal Judge Fernando Gaitan has given Corrections Director Larry Crawford and his employees a laundry list of things to change before the state can execute anyone...
by admin | May 22, 2006 | Crime / Courts
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....
by admin | May 15, 2006 | Crime / Courts
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...
by admin | May 9, 2006 | Crime / Courts
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...
by admin | May 3, 2006 | Politics / Govt, Transportation
What a difference a year makes. State lawmakers have approved a $20.8 billion state budget two days prior to the deadline, readily agreeing to a budget a bit more than 8.5% larger than the current state budget. Last year’s budget debate featured harsh clashes...