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 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 ...

Clayton Welte, 27, died of a drug overdose in Racine Correctional Institution in March 2023. Welte's family reported his erratic behavior and requests for money before his death. The Wisconsin DOC has ...

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

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. - 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 ...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin is suing the Department of Corrections for not following "a long-overlooked state statute" that requires the department to permit incarcerated people ...

Mary Margaret Olohan is a senior reporter for The Daily Signal and the author of "Detrans: True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult." She previously reported for both The Daily Caller and The ...

Wisconsin lawmakers passed a pay raise for corrections officers last year in hopes of fixing staffing shortages. The state Department of Corrections graduated its largest training class ever in ...

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 ...