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Inmates' advocates criticize conditions at St. Louis jail Eric Berger and Mark Berman, The Washington Post Feb. 8, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail ST. LOUIS - Some inmate advocates and attorneys said Monday that they are not surprised by a weekend uprising at the jail here during which inmates smashed windows and set fires and a corrections officer ended up hospitalized. "They are desperate in there, and anyone would be at this point," Erika Wurst, a lawyer with the St. Louis public defender's office, said of the more than 700 people detained at the St. Louis Justice Center, a six-story building a...

Over 100 inmates at a St. Louis jail launched an uprising Saturday morning. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Blake Strode, executive director of the

On Saturday, bystanders witnessed detainees causing chaos at the on the fourth floor. They broke windows, set fires and threw furniture out the windows.

An uprising and protest at St. Louis’ downtown jail this weekend is leading activists and public officials to two different conclusions when it comes to the city’s other and more notorious jail known as the Workhouse.

How ArchCity Defenders is expanding its reach beyond St. Louis The organization has grown its staff by a third since the summer, to 32 full-time employees, with half of workers identifying as Black or people of color Credit: SLBJ Author: Jacob Kirn – St. Louis Business Journal Published: 7:36 AM CST January 15, 2021 Updated: 7:36 AM CST January 15, 2021 ST. LOUIS — Nonprofit civil rights law firm ArchCity Defenders has grown its budget and beefed up staff — and now it’s looking to take its brand of social-justice litigation across the ...