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 ...

A 65-year-old man who was an inmate at the Jefferson City Correctional Center was pronounced dead Friday morning, according to a news release from the Missouri Department of Corrections. Richard ...

A 73-year-old man who has spent the last 20 years in prison has died in the Jefferson City Correctional Center. Fred Harris was pronounced dead at 7:21 a.m. Thursday, according to a news release from ...

Current and former employees at Jefferson City Correctional Center say the nursing shortage is causing unrest. They blame the state's contractor, Centurion Health. When Steven Caldwell-Bey wasn't able ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trevor Foley, director of the Missouri Department of Corrections, testifies on the status of the state's contract for health care ...