Deandre Pointer, a man incarcerated at the Jefferson City Correctional Center, discusses his legal effort to get his parole date recalculated. If the date is not changed, Pointer will serve 40 years ...

To Kevin Yancey, time is compassion inside the walls of a prison. As the institutional re-entry coordinator at Jefferson City Correctional Center (JCCC), Yancey works closely with dozens of ...

Deandre Pointer took a plea deal in 2023 to end his court challenge to a 2005 conviction for first-degree murder. Then he found out how the Department of Corrections awards credit for time served.

When Deandre Pointer appeared in front of a Jackson County judge in June 2023, his world was bright. After years of protesting his innocence of murder charges and failing to convince any court, ...

A former Jefferson City Correctional Center nurse made an Alford plea to charges that she killed her husband. In 2019, Miller County prosecutors charged Amy Murray with First Degree Murder, Armed ...

Cockrell is charged with two counts of failure to register as a sex offender -- he faces enhanced charges as a previous offender with a serious felony conviction. He could face a maximum of 14 years ...

This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project - St. Louis, a nonprofit news team covering Missouri’s criminal justice systems, The Midwest Newsroom, and St. Louis Public Radio.