Inmates at a Missouri prison have filed a lawsuit claiming they're suffering from life-threatening extreme heat in their un-air-conditioned cells during the summer. The suit claims that the sweltering ...

BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) -- The Missouri Department of Corrections says an inmate's death is being investigated. Officials say 44-year-old Michael Williams was pronounced dead at the Eastern Reception ...

As the heat index hit 105 degrees, lawyers requested swift cooling measures in a Missouri prison with no A/C. One man shares ...

LICKING, Mo. (KY3) - An inmate being held at the South Central Correctional Center has died. According to the Missouri Department of Corrections, 35-year-old Robert Wallace was pronounced dead ...

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ST. LOUIS -- A federal judge has ruled that Missouri prison officials violated the constitutional rights of an inmate once labeled a white supremacist when they refused to serve him kosher meals.

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AVONDALE, Pennsylvania -- An "armed and dangerous" inmate who escaped a jail in Barry County, Missouri earlier this summer was arrested on Thursday in Avondale, Pennsylvania. Action News has confirmed ...

On Thursday, a new law takes effect that officially repeals the Missouri Incarceration Reimbursement Act. MIRA, first passed in 1988, allows the attorney general to sue prison inmates and seize their ...

A man lies on a cot within a jail cell. James Pointer’s life sentence in the Missouri Department of Corrections ended abruptly last week when he bled to death from an opening in his leg used to ...

MISSISSIPPI COUNTY, Mo. (KFVS) - A corrections officer and two inmates are charged in a plot to sneak fentanyl into a southeast Missouri prison. According to court documents, 39-year-old Kristen Overy ...