Independent filmmaker Jennifer McShane came to Missouri to make her second documentary about prison life, focusing on an unusual group of men at South Central Correctional Center south of St. Louis.

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 sweltering ...

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A man lies on a cot within a jail cell. James Pointer’s life sentence in the Missouri Department of Corrections ended abruptly last week when he bled to death from an opening in his leg used to ...

MOBERLY, Mo. — James Pointer’s life sentence in the Missouri Department of Corrections ended abruptly last week when he bled to death from an opening in his leg used to administer dialysis treatments.

Missouri executed a death row inmate for fatally shooting a state trooper in 2005. The inmate, Lance Shockley, says he did ...