CHILLICOTHE, Mo. (AP) -- A new women's prison nearing completion in Chillicothe will help accommodate a growing number of female offenders. Corrections Director Larry Crawford and Gov. Matt Blunt ...

Sandra Hemme's federal lawsuit accuses St. Joseph Police of suppressing and destroying evidence that pointed to a fellow ...

CHILLICOTHE, Mo. (AP) -- Hundreds of inmates are settling in to the new women's prison in Chillicothe, which was built to ease overcrowding as the number of female offenders grows. The Missouri ...

A woman has filed a lawsuit alleging a former Missouri prison guard sexually assaulted her more than 52 times. Four other women have also said Edward Bearden assaulted them at Chillicothe ...

The Chillicothe Correctional Center, a women’s prison operated by Missouri Department of Corrections in Chillicothe, Missouri. Angie Talken Angie Talken Ashley Zieser was addicted to meth in ...

Pickard, 66, will never step outside the prison gates at the Chillicothe Correctional Center, having been sentenced to life without parole in the June 1999 death of her husband, Michael Pickard ...

Sandra Hemme spent more than four decades in prison for a 1980 murder in St. Joseph, Missouri, that she didn’t commit.

Missouri's female offender population has risen by 150 percent over the last decade and the Vandalia women's prison has struggled to hold all of the offenders.

More than 2,500 Missouri prison inmates have been infected by the novel coronavirus. And the state's prison employees are the lowest-paid in the nation. Shortage of staff leads Missouri to ...

2 Missouri Prison Guards Killed in Possible ... but they were identified as a man and a woman in their 30s who had joined the staff of the Chillicothe Correctional Center, a women's prison, ...

CHILLICOTHE, Mo. — A woman whose murder conviction was overturned after she served 43 years of a life sentence was released Friday, despite attempts in the last month by Missouri’s ...

The state determined in 2003 that the 525-bed Chillicothe Correctional Center should be closed. It's one of two in the state that houses female inmates. Calling the prison vital to ...