The new law, along with another protecting Social Security benefits of foster children, was part of a bill putting St. Louis ...

According to state statistics, there were 331 reported cases of staff-on-offender sexual assault in Missouri prisons in 2016, the last year for which full numbers are compiled.

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 ...

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.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — For the second time in weeks, a Missouri prison has ignored a court order to release an inmate whose murder conviction was overturned. Just as in the case of Sandra Hemme ...

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 ...