This week Dennis Benson will retire after four years as executive director of the Minnesota Sex Offender Program. His departure caps a career with the Department of Corrections that spanned more than three decades and included stints as warden at prisons in Stillwater and Oak Park Heights.

David Crist has spent practically his entire life around prisons. When he was in third grade, his father took a position as the assistant warden at the maximum security prison in Waupun, Wis.

Fiscal hawks at the Capitol may lock horns with Shakopee officials over a proposed $5.4 million fence for the women’s prison there.

Republicans who received the veto letters say they strike a tone of anything but compromise.

Gov. Mark Dayton is getting closer to filling his cabinet, naming Tom Roy as head of the Department of Corrections, and his transition co-chair Lee Sheehy as chair of the Commission on Judicial Selection.

The proposed expansion, which would increase capacity at the Moose Lake facility by 400 beds, came before the House's Health Care and Human Services Finance Division for a hearing earlier this week.

Eight people have been appointed to Minnesota’s Corrections Strategic Management and Operations Advisory Task Force by Gov. Tim Pawlenty.