Missouri pays $212M for prison health care, but inmate deaths aren’t a performance measure

Whether inmates die while in state custody is not used to measure the performance of Missouri’s private prison health care ...
KSHB 41 Kansas City

Advocates propose state-funded doula program for Missouri’s incarcerated women in DOC

Missouri Appleseed is requesting state funding for doulas to support incarcerated women during pregnancy and childbirth, ...
News Tribune

Missouri Department of Corrections exploring new health care options

The Missouri Department of Corrections is exploring new options and models to provide medical services in prisons across the ...
KOMU 8

Missouri’s prison nursery is rare, offering a case study of motherhood behind bars

As more women enter state prisons while pregnant, lawmakers and corrections officials are expanding prison nursery programs, ...
KMBC Kansas City

Hostage situation at Missouri prison ends ends with capture of offender

60S. DONNA. ALL RIGHT, NICK, THANK YOU. WELL, HERE ARE NINE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW RIGHT NOW AS YOU HEAD OUT THE DOOR. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR A KILLER AFTER A MAN DIES AFTER ...
Yahoo

Missouri governor’s parole working group ducks question of time served before release

The Algoa Correctional Center in Jefferson City (Rudi Keller/Missouri Independent). The biggest unresolved question after a months-long study of the Missouri parole system is arguably the most ...
KCTV News

Prison sentence handed to man who threatened to bomb Missouri medical facility

MARSHALL, Mo. (KCTV) - A man who threatened to bomb a rural Missouri medical facility has been sentenced to prison. Saline County, Missouri, Circuit Court records filed on Monday, Nov. 10, indicate ...