Missouri prisoners report being forced to shovel snow in subzero temperatures

By: Rudi Keller

Outlets: Missouri Independent

Published: January 27, 2026

Words: 1,282

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 3 days ago

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With temperatures hovering near zero and windchills approaching minus 20 degrees, Spain Bady was ordered to leave his cell at Algoa Correctional Center on Saturday morning and clear snow from prison walkways.

He refused, telling the corrections officer directing him to go outside that he has been enrolled in education programs and is exempt from labor assignments. That is not what the prison records showed, was the response, and he had two options — go …

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