Former Faribault prison guard accused of smuggling drugs to inmate
A correctional officer at a southern Minnesota prison is accused of smuggling drugs to one of the inmates earlier this month, authorities announced Wednesday.
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A correctional officer at a southern Minnesota prison is accused of smuggling drugs to one of the inmates earlier this month, authorities announced Wednesday.
Investigators in Wisconsin say an inmate serving time for trying to kill his mother killed his cellmate for being Black and gay.
Investigators say an inmate found dead at a maximum-security prison in Wisconsin was strangled in his cell.
The ex-Minneapolis police officer convicted of killing George Floyd has been transferred to a federal prison in Texas almost nine months after he was stabbed in a different facility.
Contraband isn't new to prisons, but investigators are warning that Minnesota's prison system is being inundated by mail laced with synthetic opioids. It's such a problem that some Minnesota prisons are changing their mailroom protocols.
A WCCO Investigation discovered that deadly drugs are getting delivered to Minnesota inmates, in plain sight. It's become such a problem, that some prisons are actually changing what happens in mailrooms. Investigative Reporter Jonah Kaplan takes us inside Faribault prison to show us how hard it can be to detect this hidden danger.
The facility has been plagued by allegations of staff-on-inmate abuse, including excessive use of pepper spray, restraints and strip searches. A court-appointed monitor is currently overseeing the facility.
Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier has spent most of his life in prison since being convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents in South Dakota.
The warden of a maximum-security Wisconsin prison and eight members of his staff have been charged following investigations into the deaths of four inmates at the troubled facility over the past year.
Gerri, a concerned family member, said she's been told from inside that the lockdowns caused by overdoses have cut into meals and rehabilitation programming.
Minnesota has joined a growing list of states that plan to count prisoners at their home addresses instead of at the prisons they're located when drawing new political districts.
"It really does play major mind games," one inmate said. "I'm not able to call my wife. It does raise the stress level of everybody, and when that happens...it can really push people over the edge."
Inmates at Minnesota's largest prison explain how regular lockdowns are impacting life inside. The inmates aren't acting up, there's just not enough staff to keep an eye on them. WCCO's David Schuman learned more about the problem in Faribault.
WCCO received complaints about inmates at the Faribault Correction Facility not being able to leave their cells, attend classes or get commissary.
Inside Minnesota Correctional Facility-Stillwater, an art program is allowing inmates to express themselves one brush stroke at a time.
The Minnesota Department of Corrections has penalized a county jail for depriving an inmate of food and water for more than two days as punishment after he smeared feces in his cell and refused to clean it up.
A prison inmate in Minnesota will spend an additional 15 years behind bars for partially blinding a prison guard in an assault.
Federal authorities are investigating a possible smuggling ring at a Wisconsin prison that has resulted in the suspension of nearly a dozen employees.
A medical examiner is shedding more light on how two Wisconsin prison inmates died last year.
Another inmate has been found dead at a troubled Wisconsin prison, the fourth in the last eight months.
A spokesperson for Alexey Navalny says his mother was give hours to agree to a closed funeral, or her son would be buried at prison.
The daughter of a Wisconsin inmate who died by suicide has filed a federal lawsuit against state prison officials, alleging they failed to provide adequate care.
The family of one Alabama prisoner says his body had no heart and another inmate's family alleges his body had no internal organs at all. A lawyer for the first family calls the cases "absolutely part of a pattern."
Marvin Haynes, 36, was serving a life sentence for a 2004 murder. His conviction was overturned, but he spent nearly two decades in a Minnesota prison for a crime he did not commit.
Haynes was convicted of the 2004 killing of Randy Sherer when he was 17 years old. He’s now out of prison.
