Hundreds of cars were parked on Sixth Avenue on April 16, as if there was a house party – at the Shakopee Correctional Center. Inside the women’s prison, hundreds of voices echoed through a ...

Maureen Onyelobi always dreamt of becoming a lawyer. That seemed like a tall task for a first-generation Nigerian immigrant who had to relearn how to walk after she was caught in a house fire at ...

An inmate at the Shakopee state prison for women was charged in a theft and swindling scheme that allegedly allowed her to collect more than $60,000 in public assistance while she was incarcerated.

The Minnesota Department of Corrections launched a pilot program this month to equip corrections officers with roughly 800 body-worn cameras inside ... of a correctional facility, body cameras ...

Additionally, children are now allowed to use a staff restroom inside the visiting area so their visits ... The doula project has been life-changing for women at the prison, Timlin, the MCF-Shakopee ...