The “mortality” of Missouri prisoners is not a performance standard for the state’s health care contractor, the MDOC director said this month.

A bipartisan prison reform bill would reward Missouri inmates for self-improvement.

In response to questions from The Marshall Project - St. Louis in October about how Missouri prison deaths are tracked and recorded, the research team at the Missouri Department of Corrections ...

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. | ...

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

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 ...

The Algoa Correctional Center in Jefferson City (Rudi Keller/Missouri Independent). The biggest unresolved question after a months-long study of the Missouri parole system is arguably the most ...

LICKING, Mo. (KY3) - The Missouri Highway Patrol confirms a hostage situation inside the South Central Correctional Center in Licking ended after nearly five hours on Monday. The incident happened ...

Missouri Appleseed is requesting state funding for doulas to support incarcerated women during pregnancy and childbirth, building on the success of the state's prison nursery program.