by admin | Jan 9, 2006 | Crime / Courts
An employee at the Potosi State Prison has been critically stabbed and has been airlifted to a St. Louis hospital. The alleged attacker is identified as Roderick Nunley, an inmate already under a death sentence. The employee’s name has not been released, but...
by admin | Jan 9, 2006 | News
A faith-based prison program aimed at keeping prisoners from returning to prison upon release is coming to Missouri. Mark Early, President of Prison Fellowship, says April 1st is the target date for the Interchange Freedom Initiative to begin operating at a...
by admin | Nov 18, 2005 | Crime / Courts
The second of the two men who escaped earlier this week from the Iowa State Prison in Fort Madison has been arrested in Missouri. Sergeant Ryan Holder with the Pemiscot County Sheriff’s Department in the Bootheel says Robert Legendre was nabbed this morning at a...
by admin | Nov 17, 2005 | Crime / Courts
Attorney General Jay Nixon has filed a lawsuit in Jefferson City in an attempt to tap into money 33 female inmates have received from pen pals. Attorney General spokesman Jim Gardner says the women got in contact with the men through various Web sites. Gardner says...
by admin | Nov 16, 2005 | Politics / Govt
Chillicothe will soon lose an old prison for women. Whether it gets a new one might well have been secured by voters in the northern Missouri community. It’s the smallest of the state’s prisons – an old structure, converted to become a prison,...
