This story is abridged from "Somewhere in Time, 170 years of Missouri Corrections," by Mark Schreiber and Laura Moeller. The announcement made in 1822 that Jefferson City would soon become the state ...

The former Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City earned the designation "the bloodiest 47 acres in America" and has long carried the greatest notoriety among the region's prisons. But Algoa ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KFVS) - Former inmates are appealing to Missouri lawmakers for changes in the prison system that would reward rehabilitation with the possibility of early release. The legislation ...

An inmate at the Jefferson City Correctional Center died Sunday, according to a news release from the Missouri Department of Corrections. According to the release, Jason Branham, 48, was pronounced ...

A Jefferson City Correctional Center inmate serving a sentence for murder out of Boone County has died, according to a Missouri Department of Corrections news release. Andrew Lucas was pronounced dead ...