Tours of the Missouri State Penitentiary have started back up as the weather slowly warms. Visitors can see the historic ...

Workers started the demolition of the Missouri State Penitentiary a couple of weeks ago to make room for Jefferson City's ...

Missouri has repealed a law that snatches money from prisoners, leaving them with few options to rebuild their lives after ...

(News-Press NOW) -- The Missouri House of Representatives will vote on a bill that would raise the daily reimbursement to county jails for housing inmates that will be transferred to state prisons.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is asking the state Supreme Court to let him appeal the release of Christopher Dunn, who spent more than 30 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. At ...

Stephi Smith/News Tribune Bob Priddy, trustee and former president of the State Historical Society of Missouri, is requesting ...

VANDALIA — Missouri’s first prison nursery program welcomed its first baby. Dawson, born earlier this week at University Hospital in Columbia, is the first infant to join the new program at ...