Mayor Tishaura Jones moments before calling activists up to begin the demolition of the workhouse, said the beginning of the demolition sends the message they “will never again accept the conditions ...

The Workhouse is not and was not fit for human beings. Now, we make sure that no human being will be detained in this facility ever again,” said Mayor Tishaura Jones. “Demolishing the Workhouse does ...

Editorial: The entire workhouse saga symbolizes the waste, dysfunction and lack of transparency that afflicts St. Louis city ...

ST. LOUIS — Advocates who fought for the St. Louis Workhouse to be torn down are celebrating a milestone. Demolition began ...

The sound of metal meeting metal was a long-sought victory for activists who began calling for the closure of the old St.

The workhouse is more than 200 years old and is ... insects and clinging dust to keep the building, which dates from 1824, in good condition. They said the process was a "balancing act" between ...

A chillingly intact Irish famine workhouse that still stands in Laois, has been awarded €200,000 to preserve it into the ...

A HISTORIC building in Laois that captures the devastation of the Great Famine has been awarded €200,000 for restoration ...

The former Workhouse Jail in north St. Louis has been demolished after years of campaigning by Mayor Tishaura Jones to close the facility due to inhumane conditions, and the city is now ...