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 ...

The ACLU is asking a judge to reopen a case and impose sanctions on Wisconsin's Department of Corrections for failing to ...

The Wisconsin DOC does random home visits on high-risk sex offenders. Agents will arrest any offenders who do not follow rules during trick-or-treat hours. The goal is to make sure families can focus ...

WISCONSIN (CBS 58) -- The Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) announced Friday that it is reopening facilities for in-person visitation. Citing a continued decrease in levels of Covid-19 ...

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 ...

MADISON , Wis. (WEAU) - The Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) is taking action after it said there’s an increase an increase in drugs coming into prisons through mail. Drugs are coming in on ...

ANAMOSA, Iowa (KWWL) -- The Wisconsin Department of Corrections is showing its support for staff at the Anamosa State Penitentiary after two staff members were killed by two inmates in a failed escape ...

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 ...

MADISON, Wis. — The state Department of Corrections is now offering the COVID-19 vaccine to those visiting loved ones at select correctional facilities. In-person visits resumed July 6 at DOC ...

A Wisconsin DOC staffer was fired after a personnel investigation. The investigation began after Morgan Geyser left a Madison group home last year. Geyser was one of two people convicted in the 2014 ...

KILLINGS WHILE TRYING TO ROB THE BAR. THE HEAD OF WISCONSIN’S DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS IS RETIRING. KEVIN CARR, SPENT 40 YEARS IN PUBLIC SERVICE IN THE STATE AFTER STARTING HIS CAREER WITH THE ...