Missouri Prison Reform News
Missouri Prison Reform received the following message from a resident of a Missouri Prison. Missourians may think they have everything figured out on who runs the Department of Corrections but I would challenge that. See the Governor is supposed to run the state but has no control over the Department Of Corrections it seems, I […]
Missouri Prison Reform received the following message from a resident of a Missouri Prison. The Canteen is a retail process. Items are orders at a price marked up then sold. Our questions and also one the States Auditor should be asking is why is our canteen fund always empty? Why don’t we have basic items […]
Missouri Prison Reform received the following message from a resident of a Missouri Prison. I work in the kitchen. I go to work at 03:30 am. I go to bed early. So with every security check before 10pm the Correctional Officers think they need to wake me up. Then after 10pm the Correctional Officers shine […]
Missouri Prison Reform received the following message from a resident of a Missouri Prison. Some edits were made for clarity. I want the public to know how corrupt the department of corrections is. If you are incarcerated you have to pass a monthly or bi monthly drug test. However, to work here (Staff/ COs) you […]
Missouri Prison Reform received the following message from a resident of a Missouri Prison. Some edits were made for clarity. I put in a cell request move several times as I can’t live with this current celly. All the time, I have been ignored when the cells I requested to move to were empty. Today, […]
Missouri Prison Reform received the following message from a resident of a Missouri Prison. Well I sit here in Algoa Correctional Center and I was on work release back last year and I was written up for a 11.5 a visual because I made a Sgt. mad at me so at 5:15 am. I was […]
Missouri Prison Reform received the following message from a resident of a Missouri Prison. The elimination of physical mail has stopped all of my mail from my family. My family is too poor to maintain a continuous correspondence so I only received a very nice birthday card every year. But now that does not come. […]
Missouri Prison Reform received the following message from a resident of a Missouri Prison. I would like to give you an update and some more information on my stolen property that valued at over $700 dollar’s. I recently wrote and waited for an appropriate time to the Deputy Warden about the issue of prison residents’ […]
Missouri Prison Reform received the following message from a resident of a Missouri Prison. There is a problem on many levels with property of people incarcerated being stolen and not investigated or replaced by MDOC or even other people incarcerated being held accountable to replace if they were to be found at fault for the […]
Missouri Prison Reform received the following message from a resident of a Missouri Prison. My name is Jeremy Pickard and I am writing to inform the public just how the staff at A.C.C. are treating the people incarcerated at Algoa. First there is one staff member that goes around and yells and talks crazy to […]