Brian Pippitt, who has maintained his innocence since his 2001 conviction, was released from a state prison in Faribault.

MINNEAPOLIS — Some family members of people being held in Minnesota prisons say the state is moving too slowly in creating a new system to allow incarcerated people to use tablet computers. The ...

Several states, including California, Minnesota and Pennsylvania, are shuttering prisons as inmate populations decline and budgets tighten. The reprieve means that roughly 90 staff members won’t have ...

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 ...

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.

SAINT PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota will become the first state in the U.S. to stop the practice of separating mothers in prison from their newborns thanks to a new law. Gov. Tim Walz signed the Minnesota ...

A Minnesota prison labor program allowed private companies to profit from low-cost prison labor, subsidizing corporate contracts and reducing revenue that could have been used for prison services, ...