Plans are in the works to overhaul Wisconsin’s prison system, shutting down one maximum security facility and repurposing ...

(The Center Square) – A former Wisconsin prison warden, who was convicted of a criminal charge tied to the death of one of his inmates, was paid nearly $118,000 for unused vacation time after he ...

WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin prison inmate has been charged with first-degree murder in a 37-year-old cold case. Donald Wayne Maier, now 60, was charged in the 1985 slaying of 28-year-old ...

Department of Corrections Secretary Jared Hoy speaks with Action 2 News about plans for Green Bay and Wausau prisons.

Wisconsin's prison population is growing steadily older, which is likely to further exacerbate the state's corrections spending in the coming years, according to a new report by the Wisconsin Policy ...

GREEN BAY (WLUK) -- The closure of Green Bay Correctional Institution could become a reality. In laying out his agenda for 2026, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers urged legislators to make it happen. For ...

An inmate has escaped from the Kenosha Correctional Center in Wisconsin and is now being sought after by law enforcement, ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin teen who killed a prison guard during a fistfight pleaded guilty to homicide Friday but contends he doesn't deserve prison time because he was mentally ill and not ...