A Missouri woman is pushing for oversight in independent prisons after her brother's death while in custody.

The Missouri Department of Corrections is releasing few details about a series of recent deaths at the Potosi Correctional ...

The names Natalie Holloway, Gabby Petito and Elizabeth Smart became known across the country. 16-year-old Shemika Cosey did ...

A new report includes every death recorded by the DOC from 2018 to 2024, and marks the first time comprehensive prison death totals have been made publicly available (Rose Wong for The Marshall ...

In order to be eligible for the program, incarcerated pregnant women must have 18 months or less left in their sentence, and not have committed crimes against children, violent crimes or sex crimes.

Inside a wing of a nursing home in Farmington, Missouri, Chiro Richey has answered the facility’s phone multiple times over the past six months. She cannot leave without permission from her ...

As the heat index hit 105 degrees, lawyers requested swift cooling measures in a Missouri prison with no A/C. One man shares the dangerous conditions inside while people await a judge’s ruling. In May ...

After repeated questions about missing deaths in the state’s existing logs, the department shared annual counts for the first time. How many people die each year in Missouri prisons? The question ...

UPDATE 2:30 PM: The hostage has been released and the suspect is in custody, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Karen Pojmann, Communications Director for the Missouri Department of ...

VANDALIA, Mo. — Kathy Briggs slipped her arms through the thick straps of a brand-new baby carrier, tugging it over her beige shirt as two other women stood beside her, tightening buckles and ...

Two years after being sentenced for a murder he committed as a teen, a St. James, Missouri, man was found dead at Potosi ...

For years, the public had no way to know just how many people died in Missouri’s prisons, a Marshall Project investigation found, because the state Department of Corrections wasn’t counting. Instead ...