Minnesota is getting ready to close a state prison for the first time in more than 100 years. WCCO shows you what that looks like and what it means for public safety. Jonah Kaplan explains how that ...

At Minnesota’s most secure prison, in Oak Park Heights, one wing functions more like a nursing home than a cell block. Men in hospital gowns sleep in adjustable medical beds, and wheelchairs crowd the ...

APPLETON, Minn. — The Prairie Correctional Facility in western Minnesota could become a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center. That’s according to new reporting from the Washington ...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz may be the next state leader subject to ICE’s expanding detention center network, after major facilities were opened or repurposed in Florida, New Jersey, Texas and elsewhere.

Jonah Kaplan is an award-winning journalist who has built a strong reputation for his balanced reporting, thoughtful interviews, and deeply researched coverage of high-impact issues affecting the ...

Faith and community group representatives held a prayer vigil Tuesday to urge Appleton civic leaders to pause talks with the owner of the prison about its use as a detention facility. Bishop Jen Nagel ...

As essential employees, federal prison workers in Minnesota are working through the shutdown without pay. Minnesota has four Bureau of Prisons (BOP) facilities, all located in Greater Minnesota: ...

ST. LOUIS (CN) — A split Eighth Circuit revived a Christian volunteer’s efforts to teach a class on masculinity within the Minnesota Department of Corrections. The decision by the three-judge panel ...

The Minnesota Department of Corrections has opened a transitional care unit for older inmates at the Oak Park Heights prison. Another has opened in Faribault, as the state tries to adjust to a graying ...