Minnesota’s pretrial system relies heavily on monetary bail and disproportionately impacts Black and Indigenous people and ...

Man serving life sentence accused of killing fellow inmate at Lino Lakes prison ...

The new department would conduct inspections, evaluations and investigations of state agencies and programs to identify fraud ...

The Minnesota Department of Corrections launched a pilot program this month to equip corrections officers with roughly 800 body-worn cameras inside three state prisons, as part of an effort that ...

Kim Weisner, a community supervision agent in Chaska, received something unexpected in the mail: a thank you card from an offender she recommended be sent to jail. In it, the man wrote that her ...

Vincent Villarreal’s release date is Feb. 13. He has been in Minnesota custody for unrelated charges since late December 2020 ...

The facility gave inmates bottled water to drink while it waited to test the water, but friends and family members of incarcerated people are concerned they didn’t have enough water to stay properly ...

Nickolas Steven Neal, 39, pleaded guilty in October to two counts of possession of a pornographic work. According to court ...

Officer Gomm, 45, dedicated sixteen years of exemplary service to the Minnesota Department of Corrections. From Blaine, Gomm enjoyed cooking, playing video games, and had a love for animals.

A bill passed by the Minnesota Legislature includes a ... Some counties contract entirely with the state Department of Corrections, and others use county probation officers in conjunction with ...