Landowners near the new Lincoln County prison site railed against the Department of Corrections for a lack of transparency ...

This is part one in a three part series on the proposed Lincoln County Correctional Facility.]By Stu Whitney, South Dakota ...

A plane carrying more than 170 Venezuelan migrants who were held in Guantanamo Bay after being deported from the US arrived ...

Yet, nearly four in five of the offenders formerly housed at the suburban Chicago lockup were not shipped to top-level maximum-security prisons, where the toughest criminals, troublemakers and escape ...

Wisconsin’s troubled maximum security prison in Green Bay would be shuttered, while the state’s more than 170-year-old prison in Waupun would be transformed into a “vocational village,” under a ...

Israel Prison Service security officers on the roof of Ofer Security Prison during unrest, February 16, 2025. (photo credit: ISRAEL PRISON SERVICE) A possible riot is underway at Ofer Security ...

The plan also proposes that the state's oldest prison in Waupun, built in 1851, be converted from a maximum security prison to a medium security center focused on vocational training. The Stanley ...

On Monday he said that as long as politics doesn't get in the way, he was "100% confident" that the maximum security prison will close "in the near future" given the widespread awareness the issue ...

The plan also proposes that the state’s oldest prison in Waupun, built in 1851, be converted from a maximum security prison to a medium security center focused on vocational training.

Wasko, who began her career as a correctional nurse in Idaho ... with a new prison on state land in the Yankton area, relying on the Jameson Annex in Sioux Falls to provide maximum-security ...

Supporters Gov. Larry Rhoden and former Gov. Kristi Noem insisted the nearly 150-year-old SD State Penitentiary in Sioux ...