Prison News | Minnesota

Recent events, organized by category (below) or region/state (right), concerning the corrections industry in Minnesota. Comments, suggestions and contributions (below) appreciated.

Contents

• Education & Rehabilitation
• Executions, Death Row, & the Death Penalty
• Gangs in Prison
• Health & Medical Treatment
• Prison Classification, Placement, and Release
• Prison Conditions & Corruption
• Prison Life & Prison Culture
• Riots, Lockdowns & Escapes
• Suicides in Prison
• Workplace & Industry News and Science & Tech

Education & Rehabilitation

• Most electronic monitoring alerts in Minnesota are quickly resolved, crimes rare
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The Minnesota Department of Corrections uses electronic monitoring to track high-risk sex offenders, as well as other offenders who are finishing out their sentences on supervised release. Thousands of alerts are ......[more]
  Associated Press, Sunday, July 28, 2013
  
  

Executions, Death Row & the Death Penalty

• Minnesota woman gets 7½ years prison for Oconto County drunken driving death
  
  OCONTO – The drunk driver of a pickup that crossed U.S. 41 and slammed into a car last fall, killing an Oconto Falls man, was sentenced Thursday to serve 7½ years in prison....[more]
  Green Bay Press-Gazette, Friday, August 2, 2019
  
  

Gangs in Prison

• Former gang member becomes agent of change
  
  the street from a Minneapolis corner where he once dealt drugs as a member of the Gangster Disciples, one of the nation's largest black...[more]
  Fort Wayne News Sentinel , Thursday, January 25, 2007
  
  

Health & Medical Treatment

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Prison Classification, Placement, & Release

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Prison Conditions & Corruption

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Prison Life & Culture

• Montana jail that once sought Guantanamo detainees filling empty beds with American Indians
  
  HARDIN, Mont. — A Montana town that once offered to take in suspected terrorists from Guantanamo Bay out of desperation to fill an empty, $27 million jail has finally started to fill its cells with American Indian inmates from across the Northern Plains.

  The Two Rivers Regional Detention Facility in Hardin was built in 2007 on hopes it would boost an economically-depressed area of southeast Montana bordering the Crow Indian Reservation....[more]

  Star Tribune, Thursday, October 9, 2014
  
  
• Incarceration rate in Minnesota is among nation's lowest
  
  ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - A new report shows Minnesota's prison population rate is among the nation's lowest. The U.S. Department of Justice statistics released Thursday says Maine had the lowest rate of imprisonment at 145 per 100,000 ......[more]
  Associated Press, Thursday, July 25, 2013
  
  
• Killers of children run extra prison risks -- Aaron Schaffhausen to be sentenced today
  
  Aaron Schaffhausen already knows most of his fate. Monday afternoon, he is scheduled to be formally sentenced to serve three mandatory life prison terms for the brutal murders of his three young daughters....[more]
  Star-Tribune, Monday, July 15, 2013
  
  

Riots, Lockdowns & Escapes

• Inmate dies in Stillwater prison incident
  
  An inmate at Stillwater prison died after being involved in “an incident,” a state official said Saturday. State Department of Corrections spokesman John Schadl was saying little about the death “because an active investigation is underway.”...[more]
  Star-Tribune, Sunday, June 23, 2013
  
  

Suicides in Prison

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Workplace & Industry News, and Science & Tech News

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