A spokesperson for the Missouri Department of Corrections said the facility remains operational, but modifications are in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE. - This photo provided by Missouri Department of Corrections shows Brian Dorsey. Sixty corrections officers and other ...

Jefferson City Correctional Center’s warden was replaced last week without explanation following the investigation of an inmate’s death, causing activists to call for answers. Prison activists say ...

The Missouri Department of Corrections reports that two prisons in Farmington and Moberly were damaged from Monday's severe ...

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 ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Thousands of Department of Corrections officers have been working for a year without receiving overtime pay because the agency says it cannot afford the tab. Since last July, ...

Update: The judge vacated the contempt order on Aug. 12, citing a directive from the Missouri Court of Appeals. The Missouri Department of Corrections has been held in contempt for refusing to release ...

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 ...

Lawyers for a man who faces lethal injection next month say his execution should be halted because the Missouri Department of Corrections does not have a permanent director. Brian Dorsey was convicted ...

Dorsey was convicted in the 2006 killings of his cousin, Sarah Bonnie, and her husband, Ben Bonnie, in New Bloomfield. KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Dozens of Missouri Department of Corrections staff ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Dozens of Missouri Department of Corrections staff members are urging Gov. Mike Parson to grant clemency to a man scheduled to die in April for killing his cousin and her ...

FILE. - This photo provided by Missouri Department of Corrections shows Brian Dorsey. Sixty corrections officers and other staffers at the Missouri Department of Corrections are urging Gov. Mike ...