David Hull, a convicted sex offender, was arrested and booked in the Lawrence County Jail for failing to register as a sex ...

Independent filmmaker Jennifer McShane came to Missouri to make her second documentary about prison life, focusing on an unusual group of men at South Central Correctional Center south of St. Louis.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A former corrections officer at the Morgan County Jail has been charged after they were allegedly in a sexual relationship ...

For years, the Missouri Department of Corrections cobbled together death records from multiple sources. New data reveals, for ...