Missouri’s new prison nursery program allows incarcerated mothers to bond with their babies and learn parenting skills.

Dispatch Dec 11, 2025 This story was commissioned by the River City Journalism Fund. ST. LOUIS — A five-year effort to mark Missouri’s most notorious slave prison will come to fruition next month, ...

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 ...

Cornealious "Mike" Anderson served a little more than a year of his sentence between 2013 and 2014 when authorities discovered the clerical error. A judge released ...

Current and former employees at Jefferson City Correctional Center say the nursing shortage is causing unrest. They blame the state's contractor, Centurion Health. When Steven Caldwell-Bey wasn't able ...

When Alan Lancaster died in January 2023 at South Central Correctional Center in Licking, Missouri, his family went looking for answers. The Missouri Department of Corrections recorded his death as an ...

FARMINGTON, Minn. — A Farmington neighborhood is embracing the Christmas spirit and working to help others with a dazzling display of lights. The '12 Homes of Christmas' display features 14 houses ...

Before he became a tenured professor at Howard University, Dr. Stanley Andrisse served a 10-year sentence at a maximum security prison. As the country’s only R1-designated HBCU, Howard University is ...

A former substitute teacher in Missouri was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Wednesday after she was accused of giving students money, alcohol and drugs in exchange for sex. Carissa Jane Smith, 31, ...

Traveling two hours on a Tuesday night to visit someone is light work for Kellie Ann Coats, executive director of the Missouri Women's Council. It's her version of "just checking in," as she calls it, ...

There are six Class 8-man high school football games in Missouri on Saturday, November 22, 2025. You can follow every game on our MSHSAA Class 8-man High School Football scoreboard. Get even closer to ...

For years, the Missouri Department of Corrections cobbled together death records from multiple sources. New data reveals, for the first time, that hundreds of people died in state prisons between 2018 ...