Home to Dodge Correctional, John Burke Correctional and Waupun Correctional - which happens to be the oldest prison in the State of Wisconsin, built in the early 1850's, Waupun has always embraced ...

The attacks occurred years earlier when Bennie Thorpe worked at a state women’s prison, his accusers said. Now he runs a prison where an inmate was fatally beaten by guards. By Jan Ransom After ...

LINCOLN COUNTY, S.D. (South Dakota News Watch) - South Dakota’s four-year process to address the state’s correctional needs evolved into a plan to build a new men’s prison on 160 acres of ...

TERRELL, Texas — A former Terrell High School student was sentenced to 42 years in prison for shooting and killing ...

Legislation in the Illinois statehouse could open up state financial aid to college students in prison. Charlotte West/Open Campus Share Jose Vidaurri was serving more than 20 years in prison when ...

The Brooks family filed a wrongful death lawsuit last month in federal court claiming state officials oversee a “dangerously broken” prison system that brutalizes inmates. Gov. Kathy Hochul ...

Senior Sophia Hess scored all four goals. Seeded eighth, River Lakes (14-12-1) will play No. 1 Dodge County (21-3-2) in the Minnesota state hockey tournament at 6 p.m. on Wednesday at the Xcel ...

The governor's proposal, in his comprehensive corrections reform plan, to turn Waupun Correctional, now a maximum security facility into a state-of-the-art, medium-security institution that would be ...

The Dodge County girls hockey spent some time at No. 1 in the Class 1A girls hockey state rankings this season. Now, they're the No. 1 seed in next week's state tournament. Dodge County players ...

But the prison's director affirms no prisoner there will ever step outside. Last week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that Bukele had agreed to accept deportees from the U.S., including ...

Last summer, the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office exposed major operational and systematic deficiencies within the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) as part of four death investigations that ...