Milwaukee County has put the finishing touches on a multi-million dollar youth facility at the Vel R. Phillips Youth and ...

If you avidly read Wisconsin Watch, you’ve learned plenty about prisons in Wisconsin. As our reporting has shown, they’re overcrowded, understaffed and particularly expensive to operate. In 2020 ...

“I don’t think Wisconsin can afford to drag its feet while people are dying… It is high time for there to be some political urgency around the closure of these prisons and a real, committed goal ...

A judge has sentenced a Wisconsin man who forged threats against President Donald Trump as part of a deportation scheme to ...

Most of the jobs available to Wisconsin prisoners are paid not in dollars, but cents. Minimum wage laws don’t apply behind bars, so some people scrub toilets for less than a quarter an hour. But one ...

MADISON — Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ sweeping plan to overhaul Wisconsin’s aging prison system, which includes closing a prison built in the 1800s, moved forward Tuesday with bipartisan support ...

The ACLU is asking a judge to reopen a case and impose sanctions on Wisconsin's Department of Corrections for failing to implement a law allowing incarcerated mothers to retain physical custody of ...

Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' sweeping plan to overhaul Wisconsin's aging prison system, which includes closing a prison built in the 1800s, moved forward Tuesday with bipartisan support despite ...