A friend of ML Smith died of a brain tumor while incarcerated, but the staff said she was faking it to get out of work. | ...

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

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - In Missouri’s capital city sits something ominous, preternatural and some may even say sinister: a nearly 200-year-old prison, the oldest on this side of the Mississippi ...

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

This story is abridged from "Somewhere in Time, 170 years of Missouri Corrections," by Mark Schreiber and Laura Moeller. The announcement made in 1822 that Jefferson City would soon become the state ...

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