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James White knows the road to the women’s prison in Vandalia like the back of his hand.Every few weeks, he herds his three kids onto a passenger bus in…
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James Dahm has worked at the City Justice Center in St. Louis for nearly a decade, but he hasn’t forgotten how hard it was to learn the ropes as a rookie…
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St. Louis County has significantly reduced its jail population over the past year, as Missouri Lawyers Weekly reported last month. Officials say the drop…
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Ashoor Rasho has spent more than half of his life alone in a prison cell—22 to 24 hours a day. The cell was so narrow he could reach his arms out and...
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The Illinois Department of Corrections continues to flounder in its efforts to care for inmates with mental illness, according to a new report authored...
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When Kalen McAllister worked as a Buddhist chaplain at Farmington Correctional Facility, she began to notice a troubling pattern among inmates nearing…
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After nearly eight years, members of the Women Initiate Legal Lifelines to Other Women — or the WILLOW Project — have made a significant gain in the case…
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Missouri’s incarceration rate for women is among the highest in the country. The majority of these women have children, yet little research has examined…
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When Stephanie Regagnon of Kirkwood was in her 20s, a jury found her mother guilty of a federal crime and sent her to prison for four years. The family…
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A creative collaboration between a nationally known playwright and a group of women incarcerated in Vandalia, Missouri, is bringing new voices and stories…