The “mortality” of Missouri prisoners is not a performance standard for the state’s health care contractor, the MDOC director said this month.

A bipartisan prison reform bill would reward Missouri inmates for self-improvement.

A friend of ML Smith died of a brain tumor while incarcerated, but the staff said she was faking it to get out of work. | ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trevor Foley, director of the Missouri Department of Corrections, testifies on the status of the state's contract for health care ...

In response to questions from The Marshall Project - St. Louis in October about how Missouri prison deaths are tracked and recorded, the research team at the Missouri Department of Corrections ...

Advocates and incarcerated people say prisoners were ordered outside during a winter storm and punished with segregation or discipline if they refused ...

After repeated questions about missing deaths in the state’s existing logs, the department shared annual counts for the first time. How many people die each year in Missouri prisons? The question ...

The Missouri Department of Corrections is exploring new options and models to provide medical services in prisons across the state. Department Director Trevor Foley told a Corrections and Public ...

Current and former employees at Jefferson City Correctional Center say the nursing shortage is causing unrest. They blame the state's contractor, Centurion Health. When Steven Caldwell-Bey wasn't able ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KY3) - In Missouri’s capital city sits something ominous, preternatural, and some may even say sinister: a nearly 200-year-old prison, the oldest on this side of the Mississippi ...

Missouri Appleseed is requesting state funding for doulas to support incarcerated women during pregnancy and childbirth, building on the success of the state's prison nursery program.