Jefferson City officials hosted an open house meeting free for residents to visit the site at the Missouri State Penitentiary that will soon hold a riverside market and pavilion. “This is a ...

A 45-year-old man has died while serving a 15-year sentence for manufacturing and distributing a controlled substance around ...

The women’s prison at Vandalia is expected to open a nursery in February that can serve up to 14 mothers and their babies for ...

Capitol Ave. had served as the Missouri State Penitentiary deputy warden's home. It was named a Landmark in 2016. High Street Retreat, 712 E. High St. — Jefferson City's first public funeral ...

The Missouri Department of Corrections announced that an inmate at the Jefferson City Correctional Center died at a Jefferson ...

“McGee has become something of a legend at Missouri State Penitentiary ... escaped with inmate Bert Ivan Grimm and kidnapped a Jefferson City insurance agent. McGee was executed at the MSP ...

After an exceptionally lethal year at the prison, the warden was forced out, but families are still awaiting answers on the ...

In 1957, after a riot at the Missouri State Penitentiary left four men dead and 50 wounded, state lawmakers created a ...

Over the previous five years, deaths among people in state ... deaths in Missouri’s prisons. In the case with perhaps the most attention, the warden of the Jefferson City Corrections Center ...

JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri officials have paid a six-figure ... with convicted murderer Christopher Spates, who sued the state in 2018 after he was attacked in his cell at the South Central ...