News

 Here’s today’s COVID-19 update per MoDOC’s website.  https://doc.mo.gov/media-center/newsroom/covid-19/

 The power continues to go out in parts of Farmington Correctional Center. The incarcerated are left without heat and are being told it won’t be fixed for two more weeks. This building is extremely old, has electrical issues, problems with the pipes, and even black mold. It is 29 degrees in Farmington at the time […]

 We have received multiple messages about family members not hearing from their loved ones at Farmington Correctional Center. Here’s what we have learned.  Yesterday afternoon half of FCC lost power. 10 pm count wasn’t completed until after 2 am and CERT was called in for extra help. Warden, deputy wardens and the major went in […]

 This is a letter sent to a us from a family member of an incarcerated man at SECC in Charleston. Tensions are high and these men are feeling unheard.  We were also told that recent strip searches went “far beyond the regular searches”, were degrading and were done in front of female staff. We were […]

 Here’s the Covid-19 update for today according to MoDOC’s website.  https://doc.mo.gov/media-center/newsroom/covid-19/data

Anyone who’s contacted constituent services and gotten Tim Hartness to “help” them can tell you how little this man does.  Remember this exchange from Chris Neiman? https://www.moprisonreform.org/2021/02/constituent-services-response-to-family.html Well, the next day Chris asked if he and the family member could start over. He really appeared to make an attempt at trying to help. So the family member […]

HB277 – Authorizes the early parole of certain incarcerated individuals over the age of sixty-five.  Sponsored by: Rep. Tom Hannegan (R) 02/05/2021 – H – Scheduled for Committee Hearing 02/09/2021 4:30 PM – House-Special Committee on Criminal Justice, HR 6 There will be a hearing on Tuesday 2/9/21. We don’t believe the legislature is doing […]

 Earlier this week, we received a message on social media from a MoDOC employee (https://www.moprisonreform.org/2021/02/a-message-from-doc-employee.html) accusing us of not wanting to work with the DOC to try to improve things for both staff and the incarcerated. This employee seems to be extremely misinformed.  We, along with several other organizations, have repeatedly attempted to reach out […]

 This is definitely not the first time we’ve heard a story like this from an individual who’s incarcerated in the state of Missouri. We here it too frequently. This is from WMCC in Cameron, but we’ve heard stories like this from multiple facilities across the state. 

 According to MoDOC’s website, there are now 109 active COVID cases amongst the incarcerated population today, opposed to the 89 they showed yesterday.  https://doc.mo.gov/media-center/newsroom/covid-19/data