Advocates and incarcerated people say prisoners were ordered outside during a winter storm and punished with segregation or discipline if they refused ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Last summer, Kenneth Barrett recalls spending 46 days — about half the summer — in solitary confinement at Algoa Correctional ...

A southeast Missouri judge on Tuesday threw out all of the Missouri Department of Corrections’ defenses in a mother’s wrongful death case over her son’s suicide because the department “repeatedly ...

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 ...