[ad_1] When Alan Lancaster died in January 2023 at South Central Correctional Center in Licking, Missouri, his family went looking for answers. The Missouri Department of Corrections recorded his death as an accident and offered few additional details. His family requested records from the prison’s investigation into his death, documents such as the internal investigative […]
Unsolved, Not Forgotten: Families Recall Loved Ones in Joy O…
[ad_1] Additional reporting contributed by Rachel Lippmann, St. Louis Public RadioIllustrations by Cbabi Bayoc In the city of St. Louis, more than half of the nearly 2,000 homicides between 2014 and 2023 went unsolved. The Marshall Project and St. Louis Public Radio spent time with six of the many families who have yet to see […]
Why the St. Louis Jail Reflects City’s Deepest Struggles
[ad_1] The St. Louis City Justice Center was supposed to make things better. Forty-five people in custody have died since the high-security facility opened in 2002 through February of this year, including 29 who were pronounced dead after being transported to area hospitals, according to public records. A federal lawsuit against the city over jail […]