A judge is holding a man in jail until he can pay $10,000 in fines related to a business dispute. The man says he has no ...

Inmates at a Missouri prison have filed a lawsuit claiming they're suffering from life-threatening extreme heat in their ...

Once the oldest continually operating prison west of the Mississippi River, the Missouri State Penitentiary (MSP) operated ...

Last summer, Kenneth Barrett recalls spending 46 days — about half the summer — in solitary confinement at Algoa Correctional Center, a minimum security prison in Jefferson City, Missouri. In ...

About the same time William Travis, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett were defending the Alamo in San Antonio in 1836, a prison along the Missouri River in Jefferson City was ...

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 ...

Algoa, a nearly century-old facility, is one of four prisons in the state with no air conditioning in any of the housing units, according to the Missouri Department of Corrections. As Barrett ...

The Carthage man pleaded guilty and admitted to setting up a phone to secretly record individuals, including a juvenile, in a ...

A man who admitted in federal court to setting the fire that destroyed an eastern Missouri church has been sentenced to more ...

Arkansas authorities are looking at whether a prison kitchen job played a role in the escape of a convicted former police ...

Grant Hardin was serving a decadeslong sentence for murder and rape when he escaped from a medium-security prison in Arkansas.