A new University of Missouri research effort is underway in Texas County, focusing on whether a more comfortable, normalized ...

Missouri prisons will stop providing hormone therapy to transgender incarcerated people under a new budget provision.

VANDALIA, Mo. — Kathy Briggs slipped her arms through the thick straps of a brand-new baby carrier, tugging it over her beige shirt as two other women stood beside her, tightening buckles and ...

Margaret Sines holds her 1-month-old baby Noah as she feeds him in the nursery at the state Women's Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Vandalia, Mo., on Feb. 5, 2026. Sines has ...

In a prison system rife with drugs, a new civil rights lawsuit accuses the Missouri Department of Corrections of punishing people for addiction, rather than treating it. After multiple overdoses, ...