In its prime, the Missouri State Penitentiary was once considered one of the largest prisons of its time. Today, the Jefferson City facility sits empty, hosting guided tours for residents. However, ...

The “mortality” of Missouri prisoners is not a performance standard for the state’s health care contractor, the MDOC director said this month.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - In Missouri’s capital city sits something ominous, preternatural and some may even say sinister: a nearly 200-year-old prison, the oldest on this side of the Mississippi ...

This story is abridged from "Somewhere in Time, 170 years of Missouri Corrections," by Mark Schreiber and Laura Moeller. The announcement made in 1822 that Jefferson City would soon become the state ...

At one time, there were four beautiful and fascinating structures built throughout Missouri. Today, they remain as places for people to marvel at, tour, and even ghost hunt. Love Exploring recently ...

A Missouri man fighting a calculation that could keep him in prison for more than 40 years on a 23-year sentence lost the ...

Two weeks later, pathologist Keith Norman Norton, M.D., evaluated the remains of a “well-developed, obese man,” ruling that ...

Editor's note: Part I of this story was published in the Saturday, Oct. 4 Southeast Missourian. Amos Green Byrd died May 13, 1845 in the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City, cause unknown.

The man convicted of second-degree murder in the 2023 death of a Fountain Police Officer has been sentenced to 132 years in prison. Investigators with the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) are ...