Criminal Justice

St. Louis County Looks To Increase Jail Medical Staff After Deaths

Julie O'Donoghue

St. Louis County’s top public health officials want more medical workers at the county jail. The facility needs about 20 more full-time nurses to reach…

Beth Huebner is a professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Government, Politics & Issues

How St. Louis County’s Jail Population Dropped 22% Over The Course Of A Year

Evie Hemphill

St. Louis County has significantly reduced its jail population over the past year, as Missouri Lawyers Weekly reported last month. Officials say the drop…

Sen. Karla May, D-St. Louis, reacts to the annual Vehicle Stops Report at Second Presbyterian Church on June 3, 2019. She wants Missouri law enforcement officers to be held accountable for discriminatory practices during traffic stops against blacks.

Government, Politics & Issues

Politically Speaking: State Sen. May On The Push To Overhaul Missouri’s Criminal Justice System

Jason Rosenbaum

Sen. Karla May is the latest guest on the Politically Speaking podcast, where the St. Louis Democrat talked with St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum…

Phil Cohen with two of the toy trucks he made when he started woodworking. It was his escape from a life of drugs and crime, and now he hires people with similar backgrounds to work at his business.

Economy & Business

St. James Business Owner Builds His Company With Second-Chance Employees

Jonathan Ahl

Phil Cohen didn’t think anyone would want to work for him at the cabinetry company he opened in St. James in 2004. He was recovering from being addicted…

Cass County is owed more than $200,000 from the state of Missouri for housing state inmates in the Cass County Justice Center.

Missouri Corrections Department To Counties: The Check's In The Mail For Housing Inmates, Eventually

Samuel King

Counties across Missouri hoped this was the year that the Department of Corrections would make headway on the $20-$30 million they’re owed for housing...

Judge Jack Goodman, left, swears in Elijah Haahr as speaker of the Missouri House on Jan. 9, 2019.

Government, Politics & Issues

Politically Speaking: Speaker Haahr On The Lay Of The Land For The 2019 Legislative Session

Jason Rosenbaum

Missouri House Speaker Elijah Haahr is the latest guest on Politically Speaking, where he talked with St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum about what…

Stephanie Regagnon, far right, poses for a photo in 2014 with some of the Ava's Grace scholarship recipients.

Education

‘Any of those kids could have been me’: College scholarship program nears $1-million mark

Nancy Fowler

When Stephanie Regagnon of Kirkwood was in her 20s, a jury found her mother guilty of a federal crime and sent her to prison for four years. The family…

Illinois Could Get More Nurses Trained To Help Sexual Assault Survivors

Mary Cullen

A measure that has passed the Illinois House would require hospitals to have Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANEs) who can treat and examine victims of...

St. Louis Public Radio reporter Rachel Lippmann discusses important criminal justice and city politics stories of 2017.

Government, Politics & Issues

Year in Review: Recapping St. Louis’ top criminal justice and city politics stories of 2017

Lara Hamdan

On Wednesday’s St. Louis on the Air, we did a year-in-review of the top criminal justice and city politics stories in 2017. Joining host Don Marsh for the…

Samantha Jenkins was incarcerated for 67 days, unable to afford her own bail. In that time she lost both her jobs and housing.

Government, Politics & Issues

#BlackMamaBailoutSTL raised $13K to get moms out of jail for Mother’s Day

Updated May 15 with ongoing fundraising — The creators of #BlackMamaBailoutSTL — Arch City Defenders, the St. Louis Action Council, and Decarcerate St.…