Current and former inmates say a rural Missouri county jail has been denying detainees basic necessities such as soap and shampoo. Allen Towe, of Sikeston, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that female inmates at the Scott County Jail such as ...

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A federal lawsuit claims that a Missouri man who suffered a manic attack was held shackled in a rural jail’s restraint chair in lieu of medical treatment for five days, subjected to racial slurs, force-fed and allowed to defecate all ...

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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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