The Missouri Department of Corrections head says she’s made massive personnel changes in management and staff. Director Anne Precythe, who was hired last year after a newspaper story revealed a prison culture of harassment, intimidation, and retaliation, told a state House committee she spent most of 2017 focused on staff. Last year, the […]
The Livingston County Sheriff’s Office took custody of Adam M. Woodworth, 39, Chillicothe from Circuit Court after a sentencing hearing took place before Judge David Miller. According to a report from the Livingston County Sheriff, Woodworth received sentences for felony convictions that stemmed from an investigation that began in 2015 by the LCSO, State Technical […]
Cameron is home to two prisons which are in need of staff members and the Missouri Department of Corrections will hold a job fair Saturday, November 2 from 9 o’clock to 3 o’clock. The public event is at the correctional centers’ training trailer, 609 East Pence Road in Cameron. Jobs available at both Crossroads and […]
Four Missouri prisons, including the one in Moberly, have a new program that house offenders who are military veterans in their own wing. Navy veteran Gerome Cummings of St. Louis tells Missourinet he feels a sense of family among his fellow soldiers in prison. The veterans participate in PTSD and substance abuse treatment, […]
Many Missouri counties will not be reimbursed for state prisoners housed in their jails until 2018. The Joplin Globe reports the Legislature set aside about $40,000,000 for the reimbursement program this year, but Karen Pojmann with the Department of Corrections says the state ran out of the allocated money catching up with back payments before […]
The Livingston County Sheriff’s Office received Court orders to cause the following detainees be transported to the Missouri Department of Corrections to begin serving a sentence: David White, 54, Chillicothe Possession Controlled Substance – 2 years DOC Dylan Hulett, 19, Lock Springs Probation Violation – Distribution Controlled Substance – 15 years DOC Andrew J. […]
The Livingston County Sheriff’s Office received court orders to transport the following individuals to the Missouri Department of Corrections to serve a sentence or attend an in-house program: Timothy Anderson, 62, Dawn – Probation Violation – DWI – CODS Donald Korona, 42, Buckner – Possession of Controlled Substance – 5 years Tiffany L. Midgyett, 27, Chillicothe […]
A Princeton man pleaded guilty to felony charges of second-degree burglary and receiving stolen property in the Associate Division of Grundy County Circuit Court Wednesday. Forty-four-year-old James Houk was sentenced to four years in the Department of Corrections. The sentencing will run concurrently with the previous sentencing imposed in Mercer County last year, in which […]
Missouri Department of Corrections appoints Boyles as Director of Adult Institutions. The Missouri Department of Corrections announced Alana Boyles, who has been with the department for more than 20 years, has been appointed the director of the Division of Adult Institutions. Prior to her appointment to the director of the Division of Adult Institutions, Boyles […]
The Livingston County Sheriff’s Office recently received orders to transport the following people to the Missouri Department of Corrections to serve a sentence or attend a treatment program: Sean P. Biller, 29, Chillicothe Probation Violation – Possession Controlled Substance – 7 years Tyler M. Gibson, 24, Chillicothe Violation Order of Protection – 4 years ITP Austin R. […]
Two Manpower job fairs will be held and a Department of Corrections video test will be administered at the Trenton Job Center next week. The Manpower job fairs will be Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock and Thursday afternoon at 1 o’clock. Applicants should go to the Job Center to create accounts and complete their profiles […]
The Grundy County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest of a Trenton man for parole violations of changing his residence without prior permission, failing to report to his parole officer January 10th, and unsuccessfully discharging from the substance abuse program at Preferred Family Healthcare. Twenty-five year old Jonathon Woods was arrested Tuesday and returned to the […]
The Livingston County Sheriff’s Office recently received court orders to transfer the following individuals the Missouri Department of Corrections. Tiffany Midgyett, 26, Chillicothe for Probation Violation on Distribution of Controlled Substance, 120-day CODS program. Rena Boley, 54, Chillicothe for conviction of Possession of Controlled Substance, 6-year sentence. James Spath, 29, Braymer, for conviction of Burglary […]
The Trenton Rotary Club heard a presentation from representatives of the Missouri Department of Corrections at its meeting. Recruiters Steve Brewer and Larry Denney talked about the Department of Corrections employment opportunities. The department employs more than 11,000 people in 22 institutions in Missouri. The Chillicothe Correctional Center and Crossroads and Western Missouri correctional centers […]
The Livingston County Sheriff’s Office recently received Court orders from Livingston County Circuit Court to transfer the following detainees to the Missouri Department of Corrections: Tibrucio V. Almojera, 33, Chillicothe Possession Controlled Substance – 3 years consecutive Norman Justin Caselman, 36, Wheeling Burglary 2nd – 7 years ITP Program Jimmy R. Fainter, 49, […]
A 28-year-old Trenton resident, Arron Waldrep, has been charged in Grundy County with parole violation. Waldrep is to be transported to the Missouri Department of Corrections.
CAMERON, Mo. – During a ceremony at the Crossroads Correctional Center in Cameron, Gov. Jay Nixon commended the Missouri Department of Corrections’ Puppies for Parole program, in which inmates provide obedience training to shelter dogs once considered to be unadoptable. The ceremony marked the training and adoption of 4,000 dogs through the program since its […]
Livingston County Sheriff Steve Cox has recently received court orders to cause the following people to be transported to the Missouri Department of Corrections to serve a sentence or attend a treatment program: William Jennings Ross, 37, Chillicothe Possession Controlled Substance with Intent to Distribute – 15 years William Grimes, 26, Trenton Stealing – 5 years Michael Holtzclaw, […]
A Trenton man, David Wayne Manus Jr. received a seven-year sentence to the Department of Corrections in connection with the abduction of a 9-year-old Trenton girl in October of 2015. Manus pleaded guilty in court on Thursday, June 23 to charges of first-degree endangering the welfare of a child as well as sexual misconduct by […]
The Livingston County Sheriff was recently assigned orders to transport the following people to the Missouri Department of Corrections to serve sentences handed down from the court. Gregory W. Atwood, 29, Campbellsville, KY Possession Controlled Substance 3-years consecutive. William Burfield-Farley, 20, Hale Attempt Robbery 2nd, 2 years consecutive. Christopher Campbell, 40, Hale Stealing 2 years consecutive. […]
