by admin | May 3, 2006 | Politics / Govt
An audit of the Department of Corrections’ Probation and Parole Board finds there is plenty of room for improvement in the way the office is being run and in how monitoring is being conducted. State Auditor Claire McCaskill says field officer contacts with...
by admin | Feb 14, 2006 | Crime / Courts
A 63-year-old inmate of the Jefferson City Correctional Center has died. Gary Bible was pronounced dead of natural causes on Sunday night. He had been behind bars since 1986, serving a life sentence for a murder committed in St. Louis County.
by admin | Feb 2, 2006 | Crime / Courts
The system used to execute 66 people in Missouri in 17 years is under court challenge. And Michael Taylor is still alive, because of it. Taylor was to be executed at a minute past midnight Wednesday morning for the 1989 rape and murder of a 15-year-old Ann Harrison of...
by admin | Jan 23, 2006 | Crime / Courts
A Justice Department study of sexual assaults in prisons shows Missouri had 45 sexual misconduct incidents by jail and prison staff members and 17 inmate on inmate nonconsensual sex acts. The numbers are from 2004. The State Corrtections Department says fourteen staff...
by admin | Jan 10, 2006 | Crime / Courts
The leader of a state association of corrections officers says a manager at the Potosi Prison who was stabbed three times yesterday by a capital-punishment prisoner is in good enough shape to talk to him. The Missouri Corrections Officers Association says the manager...