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The incident happened Tuesday. An internal email shows Acting Corrections Commissioner Jeff Carson launched an investigation Author: Christine Byers (KSDK) Updated: 6:00 PM CDT July 28, 2021 ST. LOUIS — Detainees once again left their cells at the City Justice Center Tuesday and damaged the facility. It’s the fourth time in less than a year inmates have let themselves out of their cells and damaged the downtown jail. According to documents obtained by the I-Team, several inmates will be charged with “destruction of property including a microwave, computer...

For a working jail, major parts of the Workhouse don't work. Every time it rains, water leaks through the flat tin roof and pools on the gymnasium floor. In its kitchen, which produces only bread, insects scurry near a wall-sized row of nonfunctioning refrigerators that serve as storage. Entire housing units are empty, leaving the bathrooms and showers to deteriorate in a slime of soap scum, rust and dirt. Detainees often describe the Workhouse in the most extreme terms. Some call it hell. Officially, St. Louis calls it the Medium Security Institution. Inhabited parts of the jail are ...

Several members of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen are criticizing the city’s plan to close the Medium Security Institution known as the Workhouse in coming weeks. Some expressed concerns that moving inmates from the Workhouse to the St. Louis City Justice Center could lead to overcrowding.

Mayor Tishaura Jones wants St. Louis — and the rest of the country — to rethink what a safe city means but with rising crime it won't be easy.

Tishaura Jones wants to reimagine policing in St. Louis. With rising crime and a push to 'defund,' can she do it? Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY ST. LOUIS – Mayor Tishaura Jones peels off her bedazzled facemask while standing outside downtown's St. Patrick Center, preparing to address the crowd about the facility's new women's center.  On one side of a 6-foot black steel fence closest to the Catholic-based homeless shelter's entrance are clergy, dignitaries and other stakeholders. The other side is home to a large gravel lot where about a dozen homeless people – most...