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A guard was abducted Tuesday by inmates at a downtown St. Louis jail, but was freed hours later after a police SWAT team intervened. Officials with the St. Louis Department of Public Safety said ...
A St. Paul woman who worked as a Stillwater prison correctional officer has been charged with smuggling methamphetamine to an inmate. Faith Rose Gratz, 24, was charged with one count of possession ...
When a loudspeaker at the Stillwater prison ordered inmates to the front of their cells for a head count one day in 2022, at least one inmate failed to show up. He couldn't hear the announcement.
Dunn was detained for a misdemeanor stealing charge (value less than $500). Dunn died "unexpectedly," and Clayton police and the St. Louis County medical examiner are both investigating his death, according to The St. Louis Post- Dispatch. Jail or Agency: St. Louis County - Dept. of Justice Services; State: Missouri; Date arrested or booked: 6 ...
The Missouri state auditor is investigating the city jail in St. Louis, citing allegations of mismanagement, inadequate nutrition and medical care, and interference with a civilian oversight board.
Opened in 1966, the prison was long controversial for its poorly ventilated rooms, debt bondage, inadequate food, forced labor, and other human rights violations. [1] On June 17, 2021, the jail was closed and its inmates moved to the City Justice Center. [2]
Sorensen's posthumous first book, Prison is a Place, documents life in Stillwater Prison in the early 1970s through the author's exchange of letters with a St. Paul religious studies class. The Prison Mirror celebrated its 125th anniversary in August 2012. It was founded in 1887 with the warden's permission using funds from prisoners including ...
The Prison Mirror, first published in 1887, is the oldest continuously operating prison newspaper. [11] [5] The Angolite, the prison newspaper of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, has won numerous journalism awards including the George Polk Award and a nomination for a National Magazine Award. [10]