Prison News | Missouri

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• Suicides in Prison
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Education & Rehabilitation

• Jail inmates volunteer in cemetery cleanup
  
  JOPLIN, Mo. — Everyone working to clean the overgrown Alexander Cemetery on Wednesday was there as a volunteer.

  The crew included three inmates at the Jasper County Jail, who had volunteered for the workday, and four members of the Jasper County Cemetery Preservation Committee.... [ more ]

  Joplin Globe, Sunday, June 15, 2014
  
  

Executions, Death Row & the Death Penalty

• Missouri executes killer despite concern about painful death
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri inmate was executed Tuesday for killing a man in 1996 in a string of violence that included several other crimes, despite concerns that the prisoner's rare medical condition would cause a gruesome lethal injection.... [ more ]
  Times Daily, Monday, September 30, 2019
  
  
• U.S. death row prisoner files for stay of execution
  
  Attorneys for a federal death row inmate scheduled for execution Dec. 13 have asked the court to stay his execution.... [ more ]
  tribstar.com, Tuesday, August 27, 2019
  
  
• Execution date set for Missouri inmate with rare condition
  
  ST. LOUIS — A Missouri death row inmate who has received last-minute reprieves twice before over concerns about a rare medical condition is now scheduled to die in October.... [ more ]
  Dailystar Journal, Wednesday, June 26, 2019
  
  

Gangs in Prison

• For St. Louis Gangs, Ferguson Has Become a Recruiting Tool
  
  As they ran through a cloud of tear gas during demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri, on Monday, Andre Ellis, 17, linked arms with Graig “Shine” Cook, a self-identified Bloods gang member who’d befriended him two nights earlier.

  “What we doing now that they gassed us?” asked Ellis, the Bloods’s newest recruit, half his face covered with a red handkerchief traditionally worn by the gang’s members. “Should we go home?”... [ more ]

  Newsweek, Friday, September 5, 2014
  
  
• Proposed bill would require students tour prisons
  
  We've all heard of programs like Scared Straight that give young offenders a glimpse into prison life. Now Missouri Senator Tim Green proposes a law... [ more ]
  KFVS - Cape Girardeau, Thursday, February 8, 2007
  
  

Health & Medical Treatment

• Federal Case Moves Forward Over Missouri Inmate's Death
  
  ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) — A judge is refusing to dismiss several medical workers and Missouri sheriff's department employees from a lawsuit alleging that improper medical care contributed to the death of an inmate soon after he was sent to prison.... [ more ]
  US News, Monday, January 6, 2020
  
  

Prison Classification, Placement, & Release

Prison Conditions & Corruption

• Missouri man gets 8 years in prison for aiding ISIS leader
  
  A Missouri man accused of supplying money and armed forces tools to a now-deceased ISIS leader in Syria has been sentenced to eight years leisurely bars — after which he shall be deported to his native Bosnia.... [ more ]
  headlinezpro.com, Friday, November 15, 2019
  
  
• St. Louis city, police, pay $62,500 to man jailed by mistake
  
  ST. LOUIS • The police department and City Hall have paid $62,500 to settle a federal lawsuit by a man wrongly held in jail for more than two months. That works out to more than $800 for each day Travis S. Jones spent locked up.... [ more ]
  St Louis Post-Dispatch, Sunday, April 27, 2014
  
  

Prison Life & Culture

• Proposed bill would require students tour prisons
  
  We've all heard of programs like Scared Straight that give young offenders a glimpse into prison life. Now Missouri Senator Tim Green proposes a law... [ more ]
  KFVS - Cape Girardeau, Thursday, February 8, 2007
  
  

Riots, Lockdowns & Escapes

• Five Illinois prisons are put on lockdown; Spikes of violence at different facilities are unrelated; no serious injuries, spokesman says.
  
  SPRINGFIELD, Ill. • Five Illinois prisons have been placed on full or partial lockdown in the past five days amid a spike of violence at the facilities.... [ more ]
  St. Louis Dispatch, Tuesday, August 20, 2013
  
  
• Authorities investigating inmate death at Jefferson City Correction Center
  
  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Authorities are investigating the death of an inmate at the Jefferson City Correction Center. The Cole County Sheriff's Department said Wednesday that Jose T. Benitez was found dead in his cell after an apparent ...... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Wednesday, July 17, 2013
  
  
• 3 inmates charged with violent crimes captured, without shoes, after escaping Missouri jail
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) - Two murder suspects and a third inmate who escaped from a southeast Missouri jail, Matthew Brandon Cook, Kade Reaves Stringfellow and Rodney Joe Green, were found hiding Tuesday in the cab of a truck at a salvage yard, still wearing their orange jail suits but without their shoes, authorities ...... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Tuesday, March 12, 2013
  
  

Suicides in Prison

Workplace & Industry News, and Science & Tech News

• Architect named for St. Clair County jail expansion
  
  Treanor Architects of St. Louis has been hired to design an expansion of the St. Clair County Jail to meet Illinois state standards while housing more violent offenders..... [ more ]
  St. Louis Business Journal, Tuesday, July 9, 2013