The “mortality” of Missouri prisoners is not a performance standard for the state’s health care contractor, the MDOC director said this month.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KFVS) - In Missouri’s capital city sits something ominous, preternatural and some may even say sinister: a nearly 200-year-old prison, the oldest on this side of the Mississippi ...

This story is abridged from "Somewhere in Time, 170 years of Missouri Corrections," by Mark Schreiber and Laura Moeller. The announcement made in 1822 that Jefferson City would soon become the state ...

In its prime, the Missouri State Penitentiary was once considered one of the largest prisons of its time. Today, the Jefferson City facility sits empty, hosting guided tours for residents. However, ...