Missouri lawmakers have taken note. In the state’s 2024 budget, they allocated $14.3 million to install air conditioning at Fulton. The building opened in 1987 and has a capacity for 1,255 men ...

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VANDALIA — Missouri’s first prison nursery program welcomed its first baby. Dawson, born earlier this week at University ...

Mothers at the Women's Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Vandalia now have the option of living side ...

Legislators are expected to pass a bill this week that would take oversight of the police away from the city. That Civil ...

COVID-19 has magnified the public health impact of practices within correctional facilities—not only for the residents and workers in prisons and jails but also for those living in surrounding ...

The Missouri House of Representatives will vote on a bill that would raise the daily reimbursement to county jails for housing inmates that will be transferred to state prisons. Missouri’s local ...

Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins canceled state funding to OverDrive, a digital platform that lets users download ...