In a prison system rife with drugs, a new civil rights lawsuit accuses the Missouri DOC of punishing people for addiction, ...

A Missouri woman is pushing for oversight in independent prisons after her brother's death while in custody.

The names Natalie Holloway, Gabby Petito and Elizabeth Smart became known across the country. 16-year-old Shemika Cosey did ...

In order to be eligible for the program, incarcerated pregnant women must have 18 months or less left in their sentence, and not have committed crimes against children, violent crimes or sex crimes.

The Missouri Department of Corrections is releasing few details about a series of recent deaths at the Potosi Correctional ...

A new report includes every death recorded by the DOC from 2018 to 2024, and marks the first time comprehensive prison death totals have been made publicly available (Rose Wong for The Marshall ...

WE ARE WORKING ON GETTING MORE INFORMATION ON WHAT CAUSED ALL OF THIS. IT IS A TANGLED WEB OF COURT PAPERWORK, A SYSTEM DESIGNED TO TAKE CARE OF PEOPLE WHO ARE WARDS OF THE STATE. INVESTIGATIVE ...

As the heat index hit 105 degrees, lawyers requested swift cooling measures in a Missouri prison with no A/C. One man shares the dangerous conditions inside while people await a judge’s ruling. In May ...

The Missouri Department of Corrections recorded his death as an accident and offered few additional details. His family requested records from the prison’s investigation into his death, documents such ...

VANDALIA, Mo. — Kathy Briggs slipped her arms through the thick straps of a brand-new baby carrier, tugging it over her beige shirt as two other women stood beside her, tightening buckles and ...

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 ...