While communicating with another incarcerated person, Missouri Prison Reform was made aware of James Scott. We were asked to reach out to him, to hear his story. We did a…
Earlier today we posted the message that Jeff Norman sent out to the incarcerated on 3/24/21 https://www.moprisonreform.org/2021/03/vaccine-letter-from-jeff-norman.html encouraging the incarcerated to get the vaccine. Mr. Norman also stated that visits would…
On 3/24/21 Jeff Norman, MoDOC’s Director of Adult Institutions, sent out an email to the incarcerated on their Jpay tablets. The email was encouraging the incarcerated to accept the COVID-19…
During a town hall meeting on 3/4/21, Missouri Department of Corrections Director Anne Precythe stated that incarcerated people were not being given conduct violations for not wearing masks due to…
We received the following message from one of the Muslim men who was pepper sprayed on 2/28/21 by DOC staff while these men were praying. The harassment continues and is…
On 2/28/21 a group of Muslim men were pepper sprayed by DOC staff while praying. We’ve made several posts regarding that incident. One of those men sent the following letter…
We’re being told that a lot of Missouri’s incarcerated population has refused the COVID vaccine or is planning to. They don’t trust the vaccine, they don’t trust the DOC, and…
We’ve posted several messages we’ve received from incarcerated men at ERDCC in Bonne Terre regarding an incident on 2/28/21 when some Muslim men were pepper sprayed by MoDOC staff while…
Here’s today’s Covid-19 update per the DOC’s website. https://doc.mo.gov/media-center/newsroom/covid-19/data
We have been told that incarcerated individuals at Jefferson City Correctional Center are being threatened with conduct violations for not wearing their masks while staff continue to not wear masks….