Department of Corrections

Dec 12, 2025

Suit claims Swift County, DOC failed transgender foster girl

Gender Justice sued Swift County and Minnesota DOC, alleging they placed a transgender foster girl in a boys’ home and ignored severe bullying and discrimination.

Jun 1, 2012

Benson offers a departing report card on MSOP

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.

Apr 25, 2012

Deputy Corrections Commissioner David Crist is retiring after more than three decades with the agency

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.

Mar 2, 2012

Good fences make good neighbors

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

May 27, 2011

Dayton veto letters rile GOP Legislature

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

Jan 20, 2011

Dayton appoints Tom Roy to head corrections, Sheehy to chair judicial selection

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.

Jan 27, 2010

Legislators wary of request for sex-offender program expansion

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.

Aug 19, 2009