News

 According to the DOC’s website, they had 62 active Covid cases amongst the incarcerated population on Friday 1/22. Today there are 94 active Covid cases amongst the incarcerated population. An increase of 32.

 There’s a new positive Covid-19 case at MTC in Maryville. These men cannot socially distance at this facility. And MoDOC wants to start treatment back up because it means more money for them. 

 We received this email from an incarcerated man who was transferred to WMCC last week. We’ve heard so many stories about lost property. It’s an ongoing issue within MoDOC. We’ve also made several attempts at getting the numbers of transfers that took place (in the past, no names included; just numbers) and the Department of […]

 Yesterday afternoon (1/22/21) The Missouri Department of Corrections took to Twitter to address our post regarding their “Covid killing technology”. Of course, they only chose to answer certain questions. The truth is, most of their facilities that house incarcerated individuals do not have “air handling systems” where the incarcerated reside. It’s very misleading of them […]

 Here are MoDOC’s COVID-19 numbers for 1/22/21 according to their website.  https://doc.mo.gov/media-center/newsroom/covid-19/

 An incarcerated man filed an IRR well over a month ago regarding his stolen property. The family has made multiple calls to the facility and has emailed constituent services only to be ignored, to have the facility warden tell her that her son probably sold his property for drugs (without any evidence of this being […]

 The Department of Corrections announced on December 8th (https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MODOC/bulletins/2b00ee8) that they would be installing “Covid destroying technology” but when will this be implemented? Have they even been purchased? We’re hearing rumors that they haven’t even been purchased yet. Also, the ionization generators work using air handling systems. How many of the prisons have “air handling […]

 An incarcerated man filed an informal resolution request regarding the riot on NYE at Maryville Treatment Center. He felt a certain caseworker put his safety at risk. He’s now been moved him to segregation due to this IRR. Below are the IRR and a message we received about the man being moved to segregation. Retaliation […]

 The state used to update their Covid-19 data daily on their website but it seems that they’ve once again began to slack on updating the data. That seems to align with the little bit of precaution they were actually taking in the facilities.  The COVID-19 data was updated on 1/14/21, then again on Tuesday, 1/19/21 […]

 Below is the text of the letter the Department of Corrections sent to the incarcerated earlier this week, according to their  records custodian. If you know of vaccines being given at any facility, please contact us at Missouricjr@gmail.com or on our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/Missouri-Prison-Reform-101144818219115/)   “ To All Offenders:   On Thursday, Jan. 14, the State […]