Jails in St. Louis, Cleveland and Jackson, Mississippi, don’t provide direct access to sunlight and fresh air – even when ...

Representative Scott Van Binsbergen of Montevideo says people in his district would like to see PCF reopen, providing jobs ...

Inmates at a Missouri prison have filed a lawsuit claiming they're suffering from life-threatening extreme heat in their ...

The regular session ends Monday; lawmakers have to pass a two-year budget by the end of June 30, or the state government shuts down ...

GOP Sen. Warren Limmer says he wants a task force created immediately to address what happens to the estimated 500 employees ...

Legislation that sets in motion the closure of Minnesota's second largest prison over the next four years is on its way to ...

The request from correctional staff and unions comes in response to a budget deal from Gov. Tim Walz and legislative leaders ...

The man who stabbed author Salman Rushdie on stage, blinding him in one eye, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.

"If you read your document, your email or whatever and it wouldn't be appropriate to read in open court, before a jury or a ...

The facility houses 1,100 inmates and employs roughly 560 people, but the operational costs of the 111-year-old building have ...

Around half of the inmates at Stillwater prison will be transferred to the Department of Corrections’ nine other male ...

Here's more about the library, Hayden's ouster and the mystery of who's in charge now: What is the Library of Congress? The country's oldest federal cultural institution, the Library of Congress was ...