Justice

Attorney Jarrett Adams was denied compensation for the 7 years spent in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Unlike his clients, he had time on his side.

In 2016, Wisconsin’s neighboring state created the first in-prison trade school, and it has since been replicated across the nation. Gov. Tony Evers wants to turn Waupaun’s prison into a similar facility.

A new initiative in Milwaukee County provides temporary housing and supportive services for people who were recently incarcerated.

Wisconsin is part of seven of the 130-plus lawsuits against the Trump administration, the state Department of Justice says.

Wisconsin’s Department of Corrections estimates the changes could lead to an increase in the state’s prison population of 4,600 people.

Wisconsin’s Supreme Court is weighing whether thousands of corrections workers should be able to sue as a group in a dispute over pay.

One hundred and fifty miles apart, Grant County and Clark County sheriffs discuss similar challenges with recruitment, enforcement against illegal drugs and emergency transportation for people living unhoused.

The Wisconsin Department of Corrections offers few details about the deaths, which coincided with a respiratory illness outbreak.

Milwaukee officials are pushing state lawmakers to create a statewide bonus incentive program to bring more police officers to Wisconsin.

A Dane County judge is ordering Wisconsin’s Department of Corrections to launch a program for incarcerated moms and their infants.