Inmates

Law enforcement captured Jonathan O’Dell of Warsaw, Missouri, around 5 p.m. on Sunday night. O'Dell broke out of the Rolla jail later Friday night. His federal indictment alleges he planned to shoot immigrants crossing the border illegally.

About half of all people released from prison in Missouri return within five years. But decades of research has shown prison education programs can help break the cycle.

The Department of Missouri Corrections will lift its coronavirus pandemic visitor restrictions on April 1. Visitors can see loved ones in state prisons without wearing a mask or taking a health screening test prior to entry.

“I just don’t trust them,” a detainee said of the jail administration and its handling of the coronavirus pandemic thus far.

Those championing the proposal think they’ll be able to get it passed before the end of session in May.

In addition to two dozen pardoned, Parson also commuted the sentences of four individuals.

Missouri inmates and criminal justice advocates insist that moving prisoners during a pandemic is risky and likely led to an increasing number of coronavirus cases this summer. But corrections officials say they’ve implemented new policies, including testing, to safely transfer people between facilities.

Dozens of inmates at a women’s prison in northern Missouri have fallen ill after contracting the coronavirus.At least 189 inmates and nine employees at…

Work hasn’t stopped for Byron Ewing during the coronavirus outbreak — if anything, it’s more intense. As an inmate at the state prison in Bonne Terre,…

Donald Hutson’s family had been waiting for his release from prison for decades.But in September 2018, Hutson died at Missouri Eastern Correctional Center…