A newly filed lawsuit is asking for a temporary injunction to prevent from going into effect a new requirement that jails ...

The state responds to a lawsuit challenging the new law that requires jails to continue inmates’ medication taken before ...

In Dakota County, an increase in inmates and 18.5 open corrections positions prompted the jail in August to start sending up to 40 male inmates — nearly a third of the jail's average population ...

Karin Kelly had hoped her daughter's arrests could be turning points. But Briana, who everyone called Cookie, cycled in and out of jails for years as she struggled with heroin addiction. She ...

The Otter Tail County Jail in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, has been penalized for denying food and water for over two days as punishment for an inmate who smeared his feces in his cell.

Polk County issued a bond to build Tri-County's current, 200-bed jail, which is now 10 years old. It's equal distance between the two smaller counties, Norman and Red Lake, which each pay Tri ...

The Minnesota Department of Corrections has penalized a county jail for depriving an inmate of food and water for more than two days as punishment after he smeared feces in his cell and refused to ...