Jail

A Lee's Summit man already jailed in his girlfriend's death is facing charges after another jail inmate was killed

Law enforcement authorities are investigating after an inmate escaped from a northern Kansas jail.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A Springfield man will serve five years in prison with no chance of parole for participating in a conspiracy to distribute more than $1.6 million in synthetic marijuana, also called K2. Donald Parrett was sentenced Wednesday for conspiracy to commit mail fraud...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man says he meant to get caught in November when he tried to rob a St. Joseph convenience store.

No one likes a clingy person. Especially the police.

"It Is Over."  Those are the words lawyer, Kathleen Zellner had written on a sky blue booklet and placed on the windows at the prison on Tuesday to let Ryan Ferguson know he was being released today. (Nov. 12).

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — A Joplin woman is suing Jasper County, saying her son died in the county jail after he was denied his blood pressure medicine and left strapped in a restraint chair for at least 21 hours.

Drinking your own urine may sound like a childish stunt, but it’s netted one man some serious cash.

Ariel Castro, the Cleveland man who abducted and imprisoned three women in his home for a decade, agreed to a plea deal on Friday that will ensure that he does not face the death penalty. He will be in jail, without chance for parole, for the rest of his life.

What’s that they say about the punishment fitting the crime?