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 ...

Advocates gathered to support three bills to create independent oversight of the Missouri Department of Corrections ...

Missourians expect their prisons to keep the public safe and to prepare incarcerated people to successfully re-enter society.

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 ...