Prisons

Next year marks 50 years since rates of imprisonment rapidly increased in the U.S. Washington University sociology professor Hedwig Lee explains how that’s impacted people with family members behind bars.

A pair of St. Louis Democrats sought entry under a state law granting lawmakers access ‘at any time’ to state prisons.

The bureau will include the number of incarcerated people in reapportionment data going to cities, counties and states next month.

On a hot day in July, Darrell, who is serving time at the Clarinda Correctional Facility, pulled a black carrot out of the ground from one of the prison...

A small group of men incarcerated at a prison in southern Missouri is working toward a common goal: creating personalized quilts for every child in the Texas County foster care system.

Inmates at the Justice Center in downtown St. Louis broke out of their cells and rioted late Sunday to protest jail conditions and demand court dates.

Inmates at the Western Missouri Correctional Center in Cameron pointed to numerous COVID-19 deaths they considered preventable, staffing shortages and guards who don’t wear masks.

An uprising and protest at St. Louis’ downtown jail this weekend is leading activists and public officials to two different conclusions when it comes to the city’s other and more notorious jail known as the Workhouse.

The daily flow of workers needed to keep Missouri prisons running has made it nearly impossible to prevent the virus from entering facilities. State health officials hope to reduce this risk by first vaccinating prison staff, but the majority of inmates will be among the last in the state to be offered a vaccine.

The Missouri Department of Corrections releases about 19,000 people a year from its prisons, but the coronavirus pandemic has altered what typical reentry into society looks like for those individuals.