This will be the first Fourth of July with a ban on celebratory gunfire in Missouri, and the law has already been enforced in ...

A Missouri woman who formerly worked as a prison nurse reached a plea agreement in connection to her husband's poisoning ...

According to a complaint filed Friday, the guards at the Jefferson City Correctional Center on Dec. 8, 2023, pepper-sprayed Othel Moore Jr., 38, in the face, placed a mask over his face that ...

An inmate at Jefferson City Correctional Center was charged with several felonies after he allegedly stabbed a corrections ...

An inmate at Jefferson City Correctional Center died Sunday morning, according to a Tuesday press release from the Department ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Four Missouri prison guards were charged Friday with murder, and a fifth with involuntary manslaughter, in the December death of a Black man who died after the officers ...

The warden of Jefferson City Correctional Center, ... said Lori Curry of Missouri Prison Reform. She said Monday her figures show 135 deaths in custody during 2023, up from 125 in 2024.

A St. Louis-based nonprofit legal advocacy firm has sued the State of Missouri, saying that the excessive heat at a prison in Jefferson City during the summer months violates the constitutional rights ...

A St. Louis-based nonprofit legal advocacy firm has sued the State of Missouri, saying that the excessive heat at a prison in Jefferson City during the summer months violates the constitutional ...

Oriel Moore, sister of Othel Moore Jr., 38, at a news conference in December after his death at the Jefferson City Correctional Center in Missouri. Four prison guards have been charged with murder ...