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“Ending Pay-to-Stay”

Excellence in Opinion Writing

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 2025

Author(s): Tony Messenger

In a series of columns on the real-life impact of Missouri’s pay-to-stay law in state prisons, Metro Columnist Tony Messenger sparked a movement to repeal the statute that allows the Missouri Attorney General to seize inmates’ assets.