
BURIED: An Exclusive, SHOCKING Report The Missouri DOC Tried To Hide
After DECADES of secrecy and lost files, a bombshell has been unburied. For the first time, the ENTIRE and UNEDITED list of Missouri prison deaths from 2018-2025 has been LEAKED to the public—and it reveals a SYSTEMIC CRISIS of negligence and COVER-UPS inside our state’s “correctional” facilities. This is NOT a bureaucratic data dump; this is a NAMED ROLL CALL of human beings who died behind bars while the state looked the other way. Hundreds of families have been left in the dark, told their loved ones were just a number in a flawed, “cobbled together” system. NOW WE KNOW THE TRUTH.
The Marshall Project’s relentless investigation FORCED the Missouri Department of Corrections to produce this damning spreadsheet—a record they claim is “current and comprehensive” but which experts warn is STILL riddled with gaps, “unknown” causes of death, and chilling omissions. Where is the accountability for the suicides labeled ‘accidents’? Where are the autopsies for deaths in solitary confinement? This data isn’t just numbers; it’s a HAUNTING TESTAMENT to a system that has FAILED at its most basic duty: to keep people alive.
Officials have quietly moved from manual to automated tracking, but the stain of INCOMPETENCE and DECEPTION remains. They have been feeding the media and the public INCOMPLETE AND INACCURATE death totals for YEARS. This is not an error; it’s a POLICY. Every “unknown” manner of death is a potential scandal, every missing name a family’s agony prolonged. The state has the blood of the forgotten ON ITS HANDS.
ACCESS THE FULL, UNREDACTED DATA BELOW and see for yourself the human cost of bureaucratic indifference. The spreadsheet you are about to see CHANGES EVERYTHING. It forces a single, horrifying question: How many more must die before we finally see this for the MASS CASUALTY EVENT it truly is?



