Historically high deaths, contraband infiltration and costly litigation cited as issues that would be addressed by ...

Proposals to add an independent review panel and prison ombudsman mirror the work done decades ago by a now-defunct prison ...

election judges, etc." and not federal officials. The Justice Department also sought to monitor polling places in Missouri in 2022. The agency planned to have officials at Cole County, which ...

Prison medical, mental health and substance abuse services are listed among the issues the new oversight program would monitor ... Empower Missouri, a social justice advocacy group founded ...

director of the Missouri Justice Coalition. There would be four legislators — two members of the Senate and two from the House — on the Corrections Oversight Committee, along with eight members ...

In 1957, after a riot at the Missouri State Penitentiary left four men dead and 50 wounded, state lawmakers created a bipartisan committee to keep watch over the prison system. The 12 members of ...

Now, the DOJ’s challenge shows that opioid challenges — and their corresponding financial risk— are not behind Walgreens. The lawsuit consolidates four whistleblower complaints against ...