The latest assault comes at a challenging time for the department, following two prison attacks that killed two corrections employees and injured more than a dozen others this year
On Friday, 115 offenders assigned to the facility’s anagram balloon factory refused to work for a full day until prison administrators met with them to hear their complaints
Danny Heinrich was sentenced to 20 years in prison on a child pornography count that let authorities close the books on a mystery that haunted the state for nearly three decades. (AP File Photo)
In return for leading authorities to Jacob’s body and confessing what he had done, Danny Heinrich will not be charged with Jacob’s murder. (Photo/Sherburne County Sheriff via AP)
All 11 state Department of Corrections (DOC) facilities now allow inmates to video chat with loved ones via tablet or computer in a program similar to FaceTime or Skype
A 68-year-old man who has spent two decades in the Minnesota sex offender treatment program is on the verge of provisional release after a special court panel granted his placement in a four-bed residential facility in rural Olmsted County