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KOMU: Missouri’s prison nursery is rare, offering a case study of motherhood behind bars

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Missouri’s prison nursery is rare, offering a case study of motherhood behind bars

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KSHB Kansas City: Missouri's groundbreaking prison nursery keeps 16 mothers, babies together in first year

Missouri's groundbreaking prison nursery keeps 16 mothers, babies together in first year

KCUR 89.3 FM: Missouri had no way to know how many people died in state prisons — until now

For years, the Missouri Department of Corrections cobbled together death records from multiple sources. New data reveals, for the first time, that hundreds of people died in state prisons between 2018 ...

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Missouri had no way to know how many people died in state prisons — until now

News-Press NOW: Missouri expands prosecutors’ role in juvenile cases, lengthens prison terms

KCUR 89.3 FM: Missouri’s prison population fell sharply since 2018. But deaths in custody are up 12%

The “mortality” of Missouri prisoners is not a performance standard for the state’s health care contractor, the MDOC director said this month. About 24,000 people are held in Missouri’s prisons.

Missouri’s prison population fell sharply since 2018. But deaths in custody are up 12%

After repeated questions about missing deaths in the state’s existing logs, the department shared annual counts for the first time. How many people die each year in Missouri prisons? The question ...

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