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Missouri lawmakers push for oversight panel to monitor conditions in state prisons
In 1957, after a riot at the Missouri State Penitentiary left four men dead and 50 wounded, state lawmakers created a bipartisan committee to keep watch over the prison system. The 12 members of ...
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Messenger: Missouri repeals its prison ‘pay-to-stay’ law but the work isn’t done
She was in rehab in state prison. “I’m trying to figure out ... On Wednesday, I texted her with good news: the Missouri Legislature voted to repeal the MIRA law. It happened with little ...
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Missouri's new prison nursery helps moms become 'the best me and the best mom possible.'
Missouri is now the 10th state in the country that has a nursery imbedded within its Department of Corrections. “I got to stay with her for 48 hours, and then my husband came to get her. It was the ...
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Chris Dunn was exonerated. Missouri’s attorney general wants to put him back in prison
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is asking the state Supreme Court to let him appeal the release of Christopher Dunn, ...
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Missouri prison nursery program welcomes first baby
VANDALIA — Missouri’s first prison nursery program welcomed its first baby. Dawson, born earlier this week at University ...
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Missouri’s DOGE effort smaller, more targeted than Elon Musk’s
The state recently decommissioned the prison wastewater system and cut off its water supply, but the space is still occasionally used as a training site for the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
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Missouri State Penitentiary demolition begins for River Market Project
Workers started the demolition of the Missouri State Penitentiary a couple of weeks ago to make room for Jefferson City's ...