MINNEAPOLIS -- Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was put into a prison's segregated housing unit for his own safety, a prison spokesperson said, after Chauvin was found guilty of the ...

An inmate who assaulted three correctional officers at the Oak Park Heights prison in March of 2023 was sentenced to serve an additional 15 years in prison. Curtez Deshawn Graham, 29, was convicted on ...

At Minnesota’s most secure prison, in Oak Park Heights, one wing functions more like a nursing home than a cell block. Men in hospital gowns sleep in adjustable medical beds, and wheelchairs crowd the ...

The prison’s capacity is set to be half, or 553, by Oct. 1, and the population as of this week is 487 incarcerated persons.

MARETTE Michael A., Passed away November 6, 2024, in Lakeland, FL. He was born July 31, 1949, in Hibbing, MN to Kathleen (O’Brien) and John Robert Marette. Mike’s early years working as a correctional ...