Shrinking vacancies for correctional officers has given the Department of Corrections a new challenge: a shortage of ...

As Camy Matthay readied the book requests of more than 200 Wisconsin inmates earlier this year, she got word of a significant complication: No more used books would be allowed to enter any of the ...

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 ...

Jared Hoy, Secretary of the Department of Corrections (DOC), appeared before the Assembly Committee on Corrections Wednesday ...

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 (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 ...

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 ...

DE PERE (WLUK) -- Friday is the final day for retiring secretary of Wisconsin's Department of Corrections, Kevin Carr. Thursday night, area stakeholders discussed what they'd like to see next as they ...

MADISON, Wis. (WBAY) - The Wisconsin Department of Corrections publicly admitted on Friday to mistakenly sharing private health information of inmates and former ...

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 ...

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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 ...