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Missouri State Penitentiary

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    May 25, 2012

    University of Missouri Press to Shut Down in July

    The Post-Dispatch was not the only publishing institution in Missouri to have a bad week. Yesterday morning, Tim Wolfe, the president of the University of Missouri system, announced plans to shut down the University of Missouri Press. The news came as a complete surprise to the ten-member staff, ed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2011

    Missouri Preservation Announces Most Endangered Historic Places

    image courtesy of Missouri PreservationSave the Oak Grove Mausoleum!​Yesterday Missouri Preservation released its annual list of the Most Endangered Historic Places in Missouri. The list now contains fifteen structures, nine held over from last year and six that are new additions. Among them a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2011

    Scares in Jeff City That Aren't About Politics

    Boo!​Something ghostly may be happening in our state capital...and it has nothing to do with the budget.The decommissioned Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City is offering tours of its gruesome cells and and execution chamber. Those seem scary enough, but if that doesn't shiver your timbe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2010

    Effort to Convert Jefferson City Prison to Office, Retail Space Gets Boost from EPA

    Image Via​The Environmental Protection Agency announced yesterday that it is awarding $234,221 in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding to to conduct a brownfield assessment of the former Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City. The prison closed in 2004 as the oldest continuously ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2009

    Old Missouri State Pen Now Proposed Site for Shops, Offices, Prison Museum

    Missouri State Penitentiary Redevelopment Commission​Ah, if only the walls of the old Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City could talk! Well, OK, most of the stories would probably be kind of dull, and the vocabulary might be a little less than savory, but the fact remains: The 177-year-ol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2009

    New Book Recounts Tale of Notorious 1953 Missouri Kidnapping

    St. Martin's PressJohn Heidenry is probably one of the few people who remember the Bobby Greenlease case, though in 1953 it was considered the most audacious kidnapping in American crime history since the Lindbergh baby in 1932.Heidenry, whose resume includes St. Louis magazine and Penthouse Forum a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2009

    Tours Planned For Old Missouri State Penitentiary. If Only It Still Had World Famous Street Art To Attract Visitors...

    The Columbia Missourian reported over the weekend that several state agencies are pushing to open the doors of the old Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City to tourists.One hundred years before Alcatraz opened, the Missouri State Penitentiary was in operation. When it closed on Sept. 15, 200 ... More >>

  • News

    January 21, 2009

    State of Street Art: Vandalism or legit, it's not going away

    The Columbia Missourian reported over the weekend that several state agencies are pushing to open the doors of the old Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City to tourists.One hundred years before Alcatraz opened, the Missouri State Penitentiary was in operation. When it closed on Sept. 15, 200 ... More >>

  • News

    April 2, 2008

    John Ray used to own a tavern in Benton Park. Now he lives in Quincy and dabbles in conspiracy theory.

    The Columbia Missourian reported over the weekend that several state agencies are pushing to open the doors of the old Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City to tourists.One hundred years before Alcatraz opened, the Missouri State Penitentiary was in operation. When it closed on Sept. 15, 200 ... More >>

  • News

    June 6, 2007

    The Rockwell Files

    Steven Spielberg's stolen painting, a St. Louis art thief, and a plot to kill Martin Luther King. It could make a helluva movie.

  • News

    March 1, 2006

    Letters Column

    Week of March 2, 2006

  • News

    November 3, 2004

    A Shot in the Arm

    A federal appeals court says Darryl Burton might very well be innocent of the 1984 murder of Donald Ball. But there's nothing they can do about it.

  • News

    April 2, 2003

    The Boxers' Rebellion

    When a renegade band of artists and writers tries to punch its way into the local fight game, the gloves come off

  • News

    July 10, 2002

    So Long, Joe

    While Joe Amrine waits to die, Missouri courts won't admit they may be wrong

  • News

    January 23, 2002

    Solitary Man

    Lifer Bill Herron knew exactly how to get out of jail -- until 16 years ago, when the Missouri Department of Corrections locked him in solitary

  • News

    August 16, 2000

    The Benetton Four

    Meet the men who sparked a lawsuit

  • News

    August 16, 2000

    Killer Campaign

    When the Benetton clothing company dared to humanize death-row inmates in a $20 million ad campaign, Attorney General Jay Nixon threw a fit. Then he played right into their hands and sued them.

  • News

    March 15, 2000

    The Boys from Boonville

    In 1963, a group of African-American runaways and truants was sent to a rural reform school. Then the nightmare began.

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