Increased use of compassionate release could ease costs and crowding with minimal risks to public safety, experts say. But it ...

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Wisconsin prison officials have reached a key milestone in overhauling a troubled youth correctional facility.

Monitors found no youth inmates were confined to their rooms for more than three days and they were getting sufficient time outside of their cells.

According to the criminal complaint, Lipscomb kicking and stomped on the victim’s head 40 times on May 21, 2024 at the ...

Wisconsin Public Radio For the first time since 2017, Wisconsin’s troubled youth prisons are fully compliant with 50 court-ordered reforms ...

Wisconsin is now one step closer to closing its last remaining youth prison facility, Gov. Tony Evers announced Thursday.

A powerful community event aimed at examining the human impact of Wisconsin’s prison system will take the stage at 7 p.m.

Governor Tony Evers says full compliance has been reached with all 50 of the court-ordered reforms at the schools ...

Marcy, NY -- A defense lawyer’s last-ditch efforts Monday to spare a guard from prison for beating an inmate at a Central New York state prison fell flat. Defense lawyer David Longeretta argued that ...

South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley says the state stopped a "conspiracy" to distribute drugs and other contraband items into the state's largest prison. Five people, including one former ...

Clashes between drug gangs on Thursday claimed at least 17 lives in the second deadly riot in an Ecuadoran prison in days, with rampaging inmates beheading and maiming rivals, officials in the ...