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Inmates at a downtown St. Louis jail smashed through fourth floor windows and set fires Saturday in the third riot in recent weeks.

Share and speak up for justice, law & order... ST. LOUIS — Inmates at the City Justice Center in downtown St. Louis reportedly smashed windows, created floods and set fires in the jail building Saturday morning, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Inmates at St. Louis Justice Center have taken over at least part of the jail. There have been protests over COVID-19 dangers inside. Not sure if this is part of that. pic.twitter.com/roSCtkIHSK Some 115 detainees on the fourth floor of the jail clogged toilets, creating floods, and set fires, spokesman for Mayor Lyda Krewson, Jacob Long, said. ...

Inmates took over part of a St. Louis jail on Saturday.

How ArchCity Defenders is expanding its reach beyond St. Louis Jacob Kirn – St. Louis Business Journal © Provided by KSDK-TV 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 state. The organization, founded in 2009, 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 and half as women or gender nonbinary. Key hires — in addition to three staff attorney...