The Prison Officer Podcast 119: Best of The Prison Officer - Interview w/Mark Schrieber - Missouri’s Prison Legacy
This is a "Best of" from January 16, 2023, Episode 24 in remembrance of Mark Schieber, who passed away on November 17, 2025.
We sit with former MSP assistant warden and historian Mark Schreiber to trace Missouri corrections from segregated tiers and whistle calls to cameras, structured movement, and a museum that fights tornadoes and time. Stories of investigations, integration, inmate culture, and saving archives reveal how people, not just buildings, define the work.
• starting at MSP in 1968, early mentorship and undercover work
• major cases, investigations and use of force evolution
• pay, professionalism and building maximum-security capacity
• integrating a segregated prison and managing factions
• “colonist” inmates, reentry fears and modern life gaps
• cameras as deterrence, logistics during riots and moves
• preserving history: ledgers, photos and museum plans
• EF3 tornado damage, tours recovery and future headquarters
• inmate art, tools like line sticks and Oregon boots
• new book Forgotten Shadows and why people matter most
Here is Mark's Obituary: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/mark-schreiber-obituary?id=60095560
Shanks to Shakers: Reflections of the Missouri State Penitentiary
Somewhere in Time (170 Years of Missouri Corrections)
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