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The 444 individuals on the Department of Mental Health’s waitlist have been charged with crimes but not convicted.

According to the Missouri Department of Corrections, approximately 19,000 people are released from prison every year. Paige Spears was finally released from prison — after 37 years.

The lawsuit filed Monday by the MacArthur Justice Center says conditions at Algoa Correctional Center in the summer violate the constitutional rights of people detained there.

The bill has been introduced for five straight years in the state legislature but failed to make it to committee hearings until now. Advocates’ hopes are high after it passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this month.

Many of the St. Louis nonprofit’s clients are veterans who have spent at least 10 years in state prison. One case manager at the nonprofit is helping others land on their feet, just as he was helped through the program.

‘This program is going to give women the building blocks to live a better life, and then that is going to overflow into their children, and then their children’s children,’ said one caregiver in the prison nursery.

In June, a judge overturned Hemme’s conviction for the 1980 murder of a librarian from St. Joseph, Missouri. After five months of legal battles, the same judge signed the final order granting her freedom.

Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s office is opposing the release of Howard Roberts after a Greene County circuit judge ordered a retrial.

Missouri prisons can house offenders in county jails after they’re convicted for a cost. But, counties say they’re spending more than what the state pays.

Jefferson City Correctional Center’s warden was replaced last week without explanation following the investigation of an inmate’s death, causing activists to call for answers.