Life in prison without parole is the sentence for Shavonte Thompson, convicted last fall of the 2019 shooting death of Javier Ayers in north La Crosse....
NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein was convicted Monday of rape and sexual assault against two women and was immediately handcuffed and led off to jail,...
BOSCOBEL, Wis. (AP) — An inmate at the state’s maximum security prison in Grant County could face an attempted homicide charge following an attack on a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Monday scheduled a sentencing hearing for next month for Michael Flynn after rejecting arguments from the former Trump administration...
WASHINGTON (AP) — He was proud of his reputation as a practitioner of political dirty tricks and frequently boasted about the extent of his contacts and...
A La Crosse County murder trial that was scheduled for October is now off, while the search continues for a defense attorney. Meanwhile, suspect Anquin St....
A 19-year-old La Crosse man was sentenced to three years in prison for taking part in a 2017 gang rape of underage girls at a residential...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Conditions at Wisconsin’s troubled youth prison have improved but the facility is still grappling with staff shortages, dirty cells and overuse of...
More than four years after Congress required the Department of Justice to assemble information about those who die in police custody, the agency has yet to...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Eddie Armstrong had been sitting in the Dane County Jail for nearly two weeks when a judge set him free to await...
MILWAUKEE (AP) — On a summer night in 2017, a police officer conducting a drunken-driving sweep in northeast Wisconsin tried to pull over an SUV after...
A northeast Iowa man will get life in prison for first-degree murder, in the death of his infant son. Zachary Koehn will not be eligible for...
It hasn’t emerged as quite the election issue that some were thinking it might. Wisconsin’s ever increasing prison population, however, should still be growing concern, says...
JUNEAU, Wis. A former correctional officer who is HIV-positive has been was sentenced to 35 years in prison for sexually assaulting several inmates at the state...
WI prisons house 23,000, while 25 years ago that number was 7,000.
This year, jail has seen 13 fights, almost 100 suicide threats
