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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trevor Foley, director of the Missouri Department of Corrections, testifies on the status of the state's contract for health care ...

When someone dies in a Missouri prison, the prison system is required to provide certain information to families about the death. Staff should notify emergency contacts of the death and explain how to ...

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

A bipartisan prison reform bill would reward Missouri inmates for self-improvement.

After repeated questions about missing deaths in the state’s existing logs, the department shared annual counts for the first time. How many people die each year in Missouri prisons? The question ...

In response to questions from The Marshall Project - St. Louis in October about how Missouri prison deaths are tracked and recorded, the research team at the Missouri Department of Corrections ...

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

Current and former employees at Jefferson City Correctional Center say the nursing shortage is causing unrest. They blame the state's contractor, Centurion Health. When Steven Caldwell-Bey wasn't able ...

The Missouri Department of Corrections is exploring new options and models to provide medical services in prisons across the state. Department Director Trevor Foley told a Corrections and Public ...

VANDALIA, Mo. — Kathy Briggs slipped her arms through the thick straps of a brand-new baby carrier, tugging it over her beige shirt as two other women stood beside her, tightening buckles and ...