a former warden at the Illinois Department of Corrections who worked in that state’s prison nursery and who helped advocate for the nursery in Missouri. Burke, who is now with the Keyway Center for ...

VANDALIA, Mo. — Tara Carroll gave birth to her daughter in 2022 while serving a 22-year sentence in the Women’s Eastern Reception, Diagnostic & Correctional Center. Shortly after she finished ...

James Pointer’s life sentence in the Missouri Department of Corrections ended abruptly last week when he bled to death from an opening in his leg used to administer dialysis treatments. Pointer, 76, ...

Justice Lassiter died by suicide in March 2023, more than two years into a seven-year sentence at Northern State Prison in Newark. If he'd made parole as soon as he was eligible, he would have ...

Five incarcerated women at the Women's Eastern Reception, Diagnostic & Correctional Center in Vandalia were chosen to act as caretakers at a nursery that opened on the prison grounds in January.

And now, the nonprofit is celebrating a win with Missouri's Department of Correction's first ever prison nursery!

Five more Missourians have been confirmed to serve as state ... Missouri Senate confirmed a list of Gov. Mike Kehoe’s appointments on Thursday. They include Trevor Foley as Department of ...

a former warden at the Illinois Department of Corrections who worked in that state’s prison nursery and who helped advocate for the nursery in Missouri. Burke, who is now with the Keyway Center for ...

Justice Lassiter died by suicide in March 2023, more than two years into a seven-year sentence at Northern State Prison in Newark. If he'd made parole as soon as he was eligible, he would have been ...

A former state prison employee has been sentenced to 90 days in prison after pleading guilty to sexual contact with an inmate. The 36-year-old woman, a former employee of the Mike Durfee State ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Men of various ages and nationalities sit silently in their cells in a Syrian prison. All are alleged ...

Missouri has a Republican trifecta and a Republican triplex. The Republican Party controls the offices of governor, secretary of state, attorney general, and both chambers of the state legislature. As ...