The Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) reported that a 36-year-old inmate, Dylan Tomlin, died on March 12 at 7:37 a.m.

Missouri may need to build a new $870-million prison if a Republican-backed sentencing overhaul increases the inmate population as projected, according to a financial analysis of anti-crime ...

An autopsy will be conducted, the Missouri Department of Corrections said.

An inmate at Fulton Reception and Diagnostic Center was pronounced dead Thursday at 7:37 a.m., according to a news advisory ...

A former Florissant police officer was sentenced in federal court Wednesday for unlawfully searching the cell phones of women for nude photos during traffic stops.

A Kansas town known for its prisons is allowing a shuttered private prison to reopen and house immigrants detained for living in the U.S. illegally after a near ...

The governor of Alabama has granted clemency to a man on death row for three decades, a rare move that spares the accomplice in a 1991 murder from execution on Thursday. Gov. Kay Ivey, in announcing ...

A federal jury on Monday awarded $667,000 in damages to a group of Muslim men incarcerated in Missouri who were pepper-sprayed by state ...

A former top Missouri lawmaker has been sentenced to 21 months in prison for misusing pandemic relief funds. Former Republican state House Speaker John Diehl pleaded guilty to wire fraud for ...

Soham killer Ian Huntley has died in hospital after being attacked in the workshop of a maximum security prison.