Prosecutors have reduced a felony misconduct charge against a former Wisconsin prison warden implicated in two inmate deaths to a misdemeanor as part of a plea deal, online court records indicated ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s second-oldest prison, built in the 1800s and long targeted for closure, would finally be shuttered under a new plan from Gov. Tony Evers that proposes sweeping changes ...

WISCONSIN (WFRV) – A Wisconsin man has been sentenced to federal prison after admitting to possessing chemical weapon precursors and threatening to use them against government agents. According to the ...

Wisconsin incarcerates more people per capita than the majority of countries in the world, including the United States. Wisconsin Watch and other newsrooms in recent years have reported on criminal ...

MADISON, Wis. — A shortage of correctional officers in Wisconsin’s prisons cost taxpayers more than $42 million in overtime last year. There are currently 920 unfilled corrections jobs in the state, ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man doing time for trying to kill his mother was sentenced Friday to life in prison for strangling his cellmate. A jury found Jackson Vogel, 25, guilty of ...

MADISON (AP) — A shortage of correctional officers in Wisconsin’s prisons cost taxpayers more than $42 million in overtime last year. There are currently 920 unfilled corrections jobs in the state, or ...