Clark Porter

Two new documentary films showing at the St. Louis International Film Festival are taking on the perception and work of public defenders in the criminal…

The federal probation office in St. Louis has one of the biggest caseloads of violent offenders in the country — and one of the lowest recidivism rates. That's in part because of a former felon who knows how to keep ex-offenders from returning to prison.

Clark Porter is a social worker at the Federal Probation Office in St. Louis. Once upon a time, he was a violent felon. But he turned his life around and…

There are thousands of people on federal probation in the St. Louis area. And officials are always looking for ways to keep them from going back to…