Op-Ed: Without a Plan – The $10 Million Waste at the Workhouse

On March 18, 2025, just three weeks before the mayoral election, St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones stood in front of a bulldozer and announced the long-awaited demolition of the Workhouse, the city’s notorious former jail. Once a symbol of mass incarceration and racial injustice, the Workhouse had become something else in the years since its …