Prison

One Missouri House member thinks Missouri Prisons should stop serving a mystery bread called Nutraloaf because it's gross. That might be a good enough reason.

Bill Cosby was released from a Pennsylvania prison Wednesday.

Toby Dorr, a former resident of Sedalia, used to go by another name, Toby Young. In 2006, Toby gained notoriety after helping an inmate escape from the Lansing, Kansas Correctional Facility. This Friday, June 11, that story will be featured on the nighttime NBC news program, Dateline.

Parson has proposed transforming a shuttered northwest Missouri prison into a training ground for incoming correctional officers.

A convicted murderer is arguing he has fulfilled his life sentence after briefly dying and being brought back to life.

A 28-year-old heroin abuser has been sentenced to 30 years in prison in an attack that seriously injured a corrections officer.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A 26-year-old Oklahoma man has been sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for the shooting death of a Columbia, Missouri, art dealer. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports Casey D. Lewis of Shawnee, Oklahoma was convicted in February of first-degree murder in the April 10, 2013, slaying of Brian Daniels...

At a contested sentencing hearing Wednesday morning (April 30), Walter Jack Staten of Sedalia, age 51, was sentenced to life in prison for the 2011 murder of William D. Saunders. The defendant pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree and armed criminal action in the Circuit Court of Cooper County, Missouri in October as prospective jurors waited in the hallway for a trial.

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.

PONTIAC, Ill. (AP) — A man who says Chicago police tortured him until he confessed to a rape he didn't commit has been released from prison after spending 30 years behind bars.