St. Louis City’s Medium Security Institution, infamously known as “the Workhouse,” has operated on Hall Street since 1966. It is no secret that there are problems with this institution. In recent ...

The bill to close the Workhouse, or the Medium Security Institution, unanimously passed out of the aldermanic Public Safety Committee on Tuesday, July 7. For advocates who have been working tirelessly ...

ST. LOUIS — Demolition of the former Medium Security Institution, colloquially known as the Workhouse, will begin by the end of the year. Demolition of most buildings at the now-vacant jail will begin ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. LOUIS – The City of St. Louis plans to ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. LOUIS – The St. Louis Mayor’s Office is ...

Demolition began Tuesday morning at the former Medium Security Institution, commonly known as the Workhouse. City leaders and groups in support of the demolition, including Close the Workhouse and ...

It’s not uncommon in Minnesota to see a news story about someone being sentenced to “the workhouse.” But what is a workhouse? It turns out Minnesota is one of the only states still using this term, ...

Gambling, keeping a disorderly house, accessory to illegal marriage and drunkenness were just some of the crimes committed by inmates housed in the Allegheny County Workhouse and Inebriate Asylum, ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The front entrance of the Medium Security Institution, the city jail commonly known as the workhouse, in 2021. ST. LOUIS — Mayor ...

The site once held a prisoner-of-war camp and a cholera hospital before being converted into a Victorian workhouse, archaeologists said. Screengrab from Cotswold Archaeology's Facebook post Along the ...