A state task force will discuss adjusting sentencing guidelines or probation practices, building more jail cells or leasing an empty private prison in Appleton.

Just 15 years after the Rush City Correctional Facility’s highly secure doors opened for the first time, the state prison is up for a major ...

Tony Cornish says he enjoyed the 2015 session, and got most of what he had wanted out of it.

Counties handle 84 percent of the total probation load and say that system is jeopardized by byzantine funding formulas for probation services, which have forced them to pick up an ever larger share of the tab.

Prison inmates are feeling the affects of the government shutdown. Visitations have been suspended until further notice and group religious services eliminated, according to a July 7 memo sent to the state's roughly 9,500 inmates.