Steph Quinn
Reporter, Missouri IndependentSteph Quinn covers social services for the Missouri Independent.
A graduate of the University of Maryland, she most recently worked for Mississippi Today, where she focused on criminal justice investigations. In Maryland and Mississippi, she has written about juvenile justice, law enforcement training on "less lethal" force and a rehabilitation program for county jail inmates.
Email her at squinn@missouriindependent.com
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Missouri won’t distribute November's SNAP benefits, at the instruction of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, due to the federal shutdown. Food pantries across Missouri say they don't know how they'll keep up with a flood of demand and loss of funding. -
Hundreds of Missouri residents are waiting in limbo after being found incompetent to stand trial. But until they can get a space at a state psychiatric hospital or otherwise receive mental health services, many are stuck in jail — despite not being convicted of a crime. -
The Trump administration in late March slashed $500 million that had already been allocated to food aid nationwide through the Emergency Food Assistance Program. That canceled 124 scheduled deliveries to Missouri food banks. -
Only Missouri and Indiana allow judges to impose capital punishment when a jury can't decide whether to sentence a defendant to death. Lance Shockley is scheduled to be executed next week for a 2005 murder he maintains he did not commit. -
At an event in Columbia, Gov. Mike Kehoe said he is confident he was on firm legal ground when he called lawmakers into a special session to redraw maps to benefit Republicans. But with three lawsuits pending, the governor said it was up to the courts to prove him right.
