A judge is ending court oversight of Lincoln Hills, Wisconsin's troubled youth prison. It took seven-and-a-half years to get ...

A federal judge formally ends court ordered monitoring of conditions at Wisconsin’s juvenile prisons in Lincoln County. Governor Tony Evers had announced earlier this week that a request to end the ...

For more than a century, residents of the maximum-security prison in Waupun have produced the state's license plates. Here's ...

Lincoln Hills has been found to be in full compliance by the court-appointed monitor, marking a new era in the prison's ...

Two juvenile correctional facilities in northern Wisconsin plagued by allegations of staff abuse are now in full compliance with ...

“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 to ...

WISCONSIN (WQOW) - A western Wisconsin man will spend more than 20 years in prison in a child pornography case. Stephen ...

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 ...

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 ...