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It’s hard to wrap your brain around, but as it turns out innocence is not a good enough reason to release a prisoner in ...
Rodney Carr is seeking his release four decades after a prison riot that killed a corrections officer. Several witnesses say ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - A sex offender in Kansas City has been sentenced to prison for the illegal possession of a firearm. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Western Missouri says that ...
A Columbia man convicted of being involved in a Mid-Missouri drug ring was released from federal custody on Wednesday.
A Missouri couple could spend the rest of their lives behind bars after they allegedly stole an elderly couple’s farm and ...
More than 100 friends and colleagues gathered in the jailhouse yard at the Missouri State Penitentiary to recognize a local ...
A rural Seneca man has been sentenced to life in prison for the stabbing death of a Carl Junction man. Scott Burleson, 32, pleaded guilty Monday in Jasper County Circuit Court in Joplin to a charge of ...
Tony Lee Wagner, who was found guilty of raping and assaulting two women in 1992, was sentenced to life in prison after new ...
Independent filmmaker Jenifer McShane says the men at the maximum-security prison formed a quilting circle a while ago. But it was not until a correctional officer brought an idea to the table that ...
Two Arkansas prison employees have been fired after an inmate known as the “Devil in the Ozarks” escaped in May ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Once the oldest continually operating prison west of the Mississippi River, the Missouri State Penitentiary (MSP) operated for 168 years before decommissioning in 2004. It now ...