Prison

A new report is coming out about how the inmates at prisons in Missouri are "fed up" with the food they are being served. What exactly are they frustrated over, and should the state make changes to help them?

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.

So you're sitting in a prison in Missouri and you're trying to get out. You've come up with a way to make a dash and ultimately you could see daylight outside the prison walls. Sound like a new plot for a made-for-TV movie? Nope, it's what's going in Jefferson for Prison Break 2021 at the MO State Penitentiary.

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.

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

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.