When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials transferred 278 inmates convicted of murder and dozens more serving time fo ...

PIT counts conducted by volunteers don't accurately capture the homeless population in Wisconsin, especially in rural areas.

MENOMONIE, Wis. (AP) — A Minnesota man accused of helping his son hide four bodies in a Wisconsin cornfield has been sentenced to 16 years in prison, online court records show. Dunn County ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — A Wisconsin man has been sentenced to prison for living under a homeless person’s name for three decades and having the victim imprisoned when he tried to reclaim his identity.

An information technology expert who for decades assumed the identity of another man so convincingly that his victim was forcibly medicated and jailed for identity theft himself was sentenced Friday ...

Matthew David Keirans, 59, of Hartland, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty last April to federal charges of aggravated identify theft and making false statements to a National Credit Union Administration ...

With a mixture of hope and skepticism from families and advocates, an external review of the state's beleaguered Department of Corrections is underway. The Chicago-based Falcon Correctional and ...

People incarcerated at Wisconsin prisons, like Waupan Correctional Institution pictured above, pay for phone and video calls to loved ones, sometimes to the tune of thousands of dollars.

Matthew David Keirans, 59, of Hartland, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty last April to federal charges of aggravated identify theft and making false statements to a National Credit Union Administration ...