Pregnant women who are incarcerated will move into the facility next week. For now, only women with 18 months or less to ...

VANDALIA, Mo. — Tara Carroll gave birth to her daughter in 2022 while serving a 22-year sentence in the Women’s Eastern ...

The floors are soft, made for tiny feet learning to walk, and colorful artwork on the walls is meant for little eyes. These thoughtful touches gained the admiration of Maggie Burke, a former warden at ...

South Central Correctional Center in Licking, Missouri [Photo: Missouri Department of Corrections] Conditions in the state’s prisons ... to bring drugs into the prison, said, “[T]here are ...

after a riot at the MIssouri State Penitentiary left four men dead and 50 wounded, state lawmakers created a bipartisan committee to keep watch over the prison system. The 12 members of the Joint ...

Now, the Civil War-era state prison will be open for tours to the public, thanks to a partnership with the Missouri ...