More than 100 friends and colleagues gathered in the jailhouse yard at the Missouri State Penitentiary to recognize a local ...

Shawntelle Fisher has more fingerprints on file with the state of Missouri than anybody she knows. Some of them are related ...

A Leavenworth, Kansas man was sentenced in federal court this week for enticement of a minor to engage in illegal se ...

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 ...

MINERAL POINT, Mo. — A man died last month while in custody at the Potosi Correctional Center, the Missouri Department of ...

Two Arkansas prison employees have been fired after an inmate known as the "Devil in the Ozarks" escaped in May. Corrections ...

A mother accused of fatally shooting the father of her child accepted a plea agreement and was sentenced to 13 years in ...

A public defender, victim’s advocate and former inmate are part of an effort to improve Missouri’s parole system. The rules ...

Missouri's prison system announced last month that it was "overwhelmed" with donations of quilting supplies. The attention ...

Every state has a capitol that houses its state legislature. Many are domed buildings similar to the US Capitol, but others ...

An inmate at the South Central Correctional Center at Licking died Thursday afternoon, the Missouri Department of Corrections ...

The Missouri National Education Association hopes to stop the use of the state’s general revenue to fund private school scholarships.