Jails

Chief Judge Andrew Gleeson said the numbers may drop in the next eight weeks but he doesn’t expect that to continue. A jail spokesman said the jail population could even increase in the long term.

St. Louis is trying to reimagine what the Medium Security Institution, or the Workhouse, should be now that it has closed. Officials are asking residents, people who were once incarcerated inside the Workhouse and those in communities that surround the jail to fill out an online survey to let them know what they should do with the jail.

St. Louis activists are demanding that judges and prosecutors rely on pretrial methods that don’t call for incarceration.

Did pandemic policies that reduced jail populations lead to an increase in violent crime? Two new reports say “no.”

Ryan Krull of the Riverfront Times has been digging into the firing of a serial sexual harasser in St. Louis County’s jail.

Arch City Defenders’ “Fatal State Violence” project counted deaths occurring in jails and at the hands of police in cities from St. Louis to Jefferson County. Now it’s expanding its mission into a rapid response team.

Inmates at St. Louis’ primary jail filed a federal class-action lawsuit Tuesday accusing guards of torturing inmates with mace and depriving them of water for days.

The Department of Missouri Corrections will lift its coronavirus pandemic visitor restrictions on April 1. Visitors can see loved ones in state prisons without wearing a mask or taking a health screening test prior to entry.

While some local jails already offered feminine hygiene products for free, at others cost was a barrier. State funding aimed to eliminate that

The daily flow of workers needed to keep Missouri prisons running has made it nearly impossible to prevent the virus from entering facilities. State health officials hope to reduce this risk by first vaccinating prison staff, but the majority of inmates will be among the last in the state to be offered a vaccine.