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Michael Politte is serving a life sentence after a jury found he murdered his mother, Rita Politte, as a 14-year-old in Washington County, Missouri.

In Missouri, people who are incarcerated or are on parole or probation cannot vote until their full sentence is completed. One study estimated more than 95,000 Missourians are barred from voting because of those disenfranchisement laws.

Lawmakers in Jefferson City are exploring how to disrupt President Biden's mandate but Kansas is pointing to a dramatic drop in COVID-19 infections among one sector of its vaccinated population.

A small group of men incarcerated at a prison in southern Missouri is working toward a common goal: creating personalized quilts for every child in the Texas County foster care system.

Law enforcement at every level should be applying a simple test to a witness' memory of a crime.

The probable causes behind the spike in COVID-19 cases in two north central Missouri counties, and the next legal step for Kevin Strickland who has been wrongly imprisoned for 43 years.

Returning citizens could become a reliable workforce for state employers and be a boost to the economy.

Kansas and Missouri are losing public health workers to pandemic burnout, and the Lansing correctional facility is the future site of a career campus providing returning citizens with opportunities before and upon their release.

More than 5,000 inmates and 975 prison staff have tested positive for the coronavirus.

After spending more than two decades behind bars for crimes they didn't commit, Lamonte McIntyre and Darryl Burton are teaming up to help others in similar situations.

Two Missouri exonerees are now working to free others who were wrongly convicted, the city's Aviation Department says construction is going well at the Kansas City International Airport's new terminal, and Sarah Smarsh's new book is a love letter to Dolly Parton.

Kansas' COVID-19 cases are on the rise outside prisons. Inside, inmates say they're still not getting much information about the virus.