Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DOC has long been criticized for its lack of transparency when it comes to reporting in-custody deaths, including how and when ...

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 (WKOW) -- Wisconsin law enforcement will be paying extra attention to sex offenders this trick-or-treating season, according to the Department of Corrections. The DOC and other state law ...

The family of Dean Hoffmann, who died by suicide at Waupun Correctional Institution last year, filed a lawsuit against the Wisconsin Department of Corrections Tuesday, alleging his civil rights were ...

MADISON, Wis. (WBAY) - The Wisconsin Department of Corrections publicly admitted on Friday to mistakenly sharing private health information of inmates and former ...

MADISON, Wis. - Secretary Kevin A. Carr, who was appointed by Governor Tony Evers in 2019 as head of the Wisconsin Department of Corrections and helped lead the agency through the COVID-19 pandemic ...

DE PERE (WLUK) -- Friday is the final day for retiring secretary of Wisconsin's Department of Corrections, Kevin Carr. Thursday night, area stakeholders discussed what they'd like to see next as they ...