BONNE TERRE - A plan is being developed to move 50 inmates into the new Bonne Terre prison this spring as part of a boot camp rehabilitation program, according to a Department of Corrections official.

The boom that has turned to bust in Bonne Terre is part of an expansion, begun in the mid-1990s, that will nearly double the capacity of the Missouri Department of Corrections. Missouri ...

Thirty-one year-old Joshua Miley has been at the Bonne Terre prison since July 2020, when his parole was revoked for stealing and burglary convictions. On February 5, Miley was attacked by four ...

BONNE TERRE- A 41-year-old inmate at a state prison in the eastern Missouri town Bonne Terre is dead of what prison officials call natural causes. Officials at the Eastern Reception Diagnostic and ...

Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Missouri, used words like viking (meaning a prisoner with poor personal hygiene) and Cadillac (meaning a cup of coffee with cream and sugar ...

Fox is currently serving a 15-year sentence at the state prison in Bonne Terre for the 2021 killing of 15-year-old Teshawn Ford. Fulton was shot and killed on Dec. 31, 2020, after she crashed into ...

Our neighbors to the north at Bonne Terre, Mo., in St. Francois County delighted in the news some years back that the state would build a $168 million prison in their community. It would be the ...

BONNE TERRE, Mo. — At a Missouri Department of Corrections facility in Bonne Terre, nine inmates stood shoulder to shoulder, preparing to kneel, prostrate, and praise God — an act of worship ...

A staff member at a Missouri prison in Bonne Terre was stabbed today and flown to St. Louis for treatment. The incident marked the third stabbing in three days at the Eastern Reception and ...

BONNE TERRE, Mo. – A Kansas City woman is pleading for more answers after her son was stabbed seven times while serving a sentence inside a Bonne Terre prison. Now, Joi Howell and state ...

BONNE TERRE, Mo. – A St. Louis mobster and member of an organized crime family in the early 1980s died in prison on Sunday from natural causes. Anthony J. Leisure was sentenced to life in prison ...