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The Missouri legislature is considering a number of proposals that would change how ballot initiatives get before voters and the requirements needed to vote.

How the Kansas Human Rights Commission is expanding LGBTQ protections that up to now only covered workers.

Prisons will now be required to treat high priority inmates regardless of cost.

Kansas prisoners are concerned about not having access to adequate hygiene and cleaning supplies, and the state ignoring other health care recommendations that would slow the spread of COVID-19.

A check-in on the the well-being of nurses working through the pandemic, incarcerated folks say health and safety recommendations are being ignored in Kansas prisons, and how a smartphone app could ease the labor of tracking positive COVID-19 cases.

Missouri's prisons so far haven't had large COVID-19 clusters like in Kansas and other states. But corrections officers and civil liberties advocates pushed for testing a broader swath of the prison population.

A federal judge has refused to sign off on a deal that would cap the number of cases Missouri’s public defenders are allowed to handle.U.S. District Judge…

Segment 1: The group is pushing against any new abortion amendment and for probation reformAs a new year kicks off and state lawmakers head back to Topeka…

The head of the embattled Missouri Public Defender System is stepping down after more than four years on the job. Michael Barrett said he’s resigning…

Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union are asking a federal judge to overturn a Missouri law banning most abortions at eight weeks of...

Missouri prison authorities have offered an effective cure for chronic hepatitis C to only 15 of the 4,590 inmates who have been diagnosed with the viral…

Student plaintiffs from a National School Walkout lawsuit have received their letters of apology from the Shawnee Mission School District.The letters were…