Started in 1999 when Agnes Wilcox decided to bring plays into carceral facilities, Prison Performing Arts now teaches theater and literacy to prisoners. But they learn so much more.

For decades, shoppers in Kansas City have had to pay a quarter-cent sales tax that funds public safety projects. Now the future of this tax is in the hands of Kansas Citians. Question 1 on the Tuesday ...

Advocates gathered to support three bills to create independent oversight of the Missouri Department of Corrections ...

Two former Jefferson City Correctional Center inmates have been charged in connection to a fight from two years ago.Online ...

At least two graduate students whose arrests have been in the news are being held at this former juvenile detention center.

With the second half of the legislative season underway, the Missouri House of Representatives is looking to pass inmate ...

Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe approved a state takeover of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department as part of a larger crime ...

A former Jefferson City Correctional Officer has posted bond after she was charged with bringing drugs into the prison.

Alleged survivors of sexual abuse at the hands of the founder of the International House of Prayer-Kansas City shared their ...

James Madison, who drafted the Bill of Rights, insisted on referring to speech as “the” freedom of speech to emphasize that ...

A worker at Jefferson City Correctional Center allegedly had two pieces of paper saturated with methamphetamine.