Missouri's plan to build a second penitentiary sparked controversy when Louis Houck allegedly attempted to bribe officials to ...

Missouri is now the 10th state to offer a prion nursery to allow incarcerated mothers to keep their newborns behind bars after giving birth. The Women's Eastern Reception, Diagnostic, and Correctional ...

An American woman who was tried in three killings before disappearing from a prison in Mexico more than 50 years ago has died in Canada, where she was living under an alias, authorities announced ...

Missouri's first prison nursery program opened in Vandalia, Mo, this week.The program is the first of its kind in the state ...

A southeast Missouri man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for recording his rape of a minor. Jason R. Hicks-Simpson, 46, of Poplar Bluff, had pleaded guilty in October to one count of sexual ...

Sharon Kinne, who spent five decades evading law enforcement, was positively identified by investigators as having died in ...

Sharon Kinne’s killing streak started in Independence, Missouri, then in Mexico, before she died from natural causes in ...