Missouri shelled out more than $2 million last month to settle the latest worker discrimination case against the state’s prison system. Richard Dixson, a white employee of the minimum security Kansas City Re-Entry Center, was awarded the money after a ...

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A Missouri woman was sentenced this week to 23 years in prison in the death of her husband whom the defense alleged she stayed with despite the relationship being abusive in part because both of them were struggling with their ...

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Some months, when Rebecca Greenwell’s emphysema makes it too difficult to go to work, or she doesn’t land enough day labor jobs, she comes up short on her 20-year-old daughter’s child support. So her daughter helps pay it. If Greenwell ...

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The Missouri Department of Corrections is partnering with a university to launch college-level classes designed to train murderers, rapists and other long-term inmates to be ministers. The program with Hannibal-LaGrange University is expected to begin in December, offering a bachelor’s ...

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Missouri prison officials have authorized treatment of only 15 of the 4,590 Missouri prison inmates who have been diagnosed with chronic hepatitis C, according to a motion filed by the American Civil Liberties Union this past week. The ACLU is ...

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The Missouri Department of Corrections said Wednesday that it is returning the European-made portion of its supply of its execution drug, propofol.

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A weeklong trial challenging the Missouri Department of Corrections’ compliance with disability accommodations on Tuesday unveiled efforts toward a new discrimination policy and a roughly $2.6 million jury verdict. The case in Jackson County Circuit Court brought by an ex-parole ...

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