Missouri has enacted a new law restricting access to gender-affirming healthcare for incarcerated transgender people, marking ...

A program to reduce recidivism for Missourians leaving prison was on the chopping block as the governor issues his budget ...

After repeated questions about missing deaths in the state’s existing logs, the department shared annual counts for the first time. How many people die each year in Missouri prisons? The question ...

Missouri lawmakers repealed the Incarceration Reimbursement Act, ending the practice of seizing assets from incarcerated individuals unrelated to their crimes. The repeal, added to a controversial ...

The Missouri Department of Corrections is exploring new options and models to provide medical services in prisons across the state. Department Director Trevor Foley told a Corrections and Public ...

State Rep. Tara Peters, R-Rolla, in the Missouri Capitol with three of the people who testified in favor of her bill to repeal the Missouri Incarceration Reimbursement Act. From left are David Jackson ...

Missouri may need to build a new $870-million prison if a Republican-backed sentencing overhaul increases the inmate population as projected, according to a financial analysis of anti-crime ...

ST. LOUIS � A federal district court in St. Louis has ruled the Missouri state prison system must provide hormone therapy for a transgender inmate serving a murder sentence. The St. Louis ...

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 ...