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One Missouri inmate says prisoners feel "powerless" to control the spread of the coronavirus. He's worried guards are taking it home to their communities.
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Persuasion is proving difficult at the Western Missouri Correctional Center in Cameron, Missouri, given inmates’ longtime distrust of prison management.
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Missouri officials initially slated inmates for earlier vaccination due to their higher risk for COVID-19 infection.
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Missouri’s parole board revokes the parole of thousands of individuals every year, often without providing an attorney or informing parolees of their right to counsel.
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Since March, 185 inmates and 47 staff members have tested positive for the virus at just one prison. Missouri inmates and criminal justice advocates insist that moving prisoners during a pandemic is risky and likely led to an increasing number of coronavirus cases this summer.
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Prisons will now be required to treat high priority inmates regardless of cost.
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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.
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Work hasn’t stopped for Byron Ewing during the coronavirus outbreak — if anything, it’s more intense. As an inmate at the state prison in Bonne Terre,...
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Segment 1: With Sanders out of the race, the Democratic Party's 2020 presidential nomination is all but secured.Loyalty, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver said, is…
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Amid concerns that prisoners face a heightened risk of exposure to the coronavirus, a public interest law firm wants Missouri to release prisoners whose…
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Brandon Reid remembers watching Barack Obama win the presidential election from his living room couch in 2008. Most of his friends had gone to the polls...
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Recent news about jails and prisons in Kansas and Missouri has highlighted horrible conditions for inmates, serious staff shortages and turnover, and lack…