Prison

One Missouri House member thinks Missouri Prisons should stop serving a mystery bread called Nutraloaf because it's gross. That might be a good enough reason.

So you're sitting in a prison in Missouri and you're trying to get out. You've come up with a way to make a dash and ultimately you could see daylight outside the prison walls. Sound like a new plot for a made-for-TV movie? Nope, it's what's going in Jefferson for Prison Break 2021 at the MO State Penitentiary.

Toby Dorr, a former resident of Sedalia, used to go by another name, Toby Young. In 2006, Toby gained notoriety after helping an inmate escape from the Lansing, Kansas Correctional Facility. This Friday, June 11, that story will be featured on the nighttime NBC news program, Dateline.

A convicted murderer is arguing he has fulfilled his life sentence after briefly dying and being brought back to life.

Charles Manson's wedding plans appear to be on hold.

There's a law in the U.K. that went into effect last fall that strips prisoners of their right to bear guitars.

Rickey Charles Goodrich, the accountant who lost his job as the chief financial officer for Pearl Jam's management company after the band discovered hundreds of thousands of dollars missing from its coffers, has been sentenced to serve 14 months in prison.

"It Is Over."  Those are the words lawyer, Kathleen Zellner had written on a sky blue booklet and placed on the windows at the prison on Tuesday to let Ryan Ferguson know he was being released today. (Nov. 12).

The man who stole $100K worth of jewelry from Jon Bon Jovi is going to prison. On Friday a judge sentenced Nicholas Tracy to five years for a string of burglaries in Monmouth County, N.J. Bon Jovi was one of the victims.

Last week, Mark David Chapman was denied parole for a seventh straight time since serving the minimum of his 20 year to life sentence for shooting Beatle John Lennon. That seems to be what he wants. The convicted killer says that if were granted parole he would “probably stay right where I’m at.”