Two weeks later, pathologist Keith Norman Norton, M.D., evaluated the remains of a “well-developed, obese man,” ruling that ...

The Missouri Department of Corrections recorded his death as an accident and offered few additional details. His family requested records from the prison’s investigation into his death, documents such ...

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.

For years, the public had no way to know just how many people died in Missouri’s prisons, a Marshall Project investigation found, because the state Department of Corrections wasn’t counting. Instead ...

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 ...

In response to questions from The Marshall Project - St. Louis in October about how Missouri prison deaths are tracked and recorded, the research team at the Missouri Department of Corrections ...

Jahi Hynes was placed in administrative segregation on April 3, 2021, after allowing the food port door in his cell to strike the hand of a corrections officer, causing minor injuries, and blocking ...

During Lance Shockley's final moments in Missouri's execution chamber in October 2025, he wanted his daughter, an ordained minister, by his side as his spiritual adviser. A few years earlier, the U.S.

A southeast Missouri judge on Tuesday threw out all of the Missouri Department of Corrections' defenses in a mother's wrongful death case over her son's suicide because the department "repeatedly ...