Tag: Minnesota Department of Corrections
EXCLUSIVE: Sex offender briefly employed inside state sex offender facility
Alpha News has learned that a man convicted of a sex offense was briefly hired to work inside Minnesota’s Sex Offender Program in Moose...
Walz DOC investigates ‘potential data breach’ that exposed admin’s efforts to...
A taxpayer-funded investigation is underway by the Department of Corrections for what it calls a “potential data breach” after an Alpha News story exposed...
EXCLUSIVE: Inmates in men’s prison provided with ‘women’s undergarments,’ ‘mascara,’ and...
Banning male inmates from women's prisons in Minnesota — Rep. Mary Franson, R-Alexandria, has made it one of her missions this session in St....
‘This is about protecting women’: Committee hears Rep. Franson’s bill banning...
Legislation that would ban biological males from being housed in the state's only female prison, Minnesota Correctional Facility-Shakopee, is moving through the state legislature.
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EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Franson to introduce legislation banning men from being placed...
Rep. Mary Franson, R-Alexandria, will be introducing legislation which would prevent men from being housed in or transferred to Minnesota Correction Facility-Shakopee, Minnesota's only...
DFL legislator shuts down discussion of trans prison policy at committee...
Last year, the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) instituted a policy which allows incarcerated men who identify as female to transfer to the state's...
EXCLUSIVE: Inmate calls Alpha News about ‘scary’ trans policy allowing men in...
The following is a transcript from a phone call to Alpha News journalist Liz Collin from Chaos Bell, an inmate at Minnesota’s Correctional Facility...
REPORT: Female inmates forced to share shower with biological male at...
Female inmates are being forced to share a shower with a biological male at the Shakopee Minnesota Correctional Facility, according to reports by Reduxx.
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Lawmaker calls for House hearings on drugs arriving in prison mail,...
A Minnesota state representative is calling for House hearings after dangerous drugs arriving in the mail have been sending correctional workers to the hospital...
Minnesota’s flag and seal redesign to cost one state agency $2.1...
Minnesota’s decision to redesign its state flag and seal is set to cost state agencies and local governments millions of dollars, with no additional...













