The film focuses on a series of hunger strikes organized by those incarcerated at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, in protest of conditions in highest-security prisons. By Alissa Wilkinson ...

Gov. Tony Evers will propose nearly $500 million in his budget to overhaul the state's prisons. The plan will include tearing down the 127-year-old Green Bay Correctional Institution and a massive ...

The closure is estimated to cost $6.3 million. Evers said, once the prison in Green Bay is closed, the state plans to sell the property. The prison's closure would have an effect on jobs, but Evers ...

MADISON – Gov. Tony Evers is proposing in his next two-year state budget a half of a billion dollar plan that would close a deteriorating 127-year-old state prison in Green Bay, rebuild another ...

The prison in Green Bay, built in 1898, would be closed. The plan also proposes that the state’s oldest prison in Waupun, built in 1851, be converted from a maximum security prison to a medium ...

WASHINGTON — Years ago, when I visited Pelican Bay State Prison on the northern coast of California, prison staff explained the rules. They gave me a stab vest and a handy piece of information ...

WASHINGTON — Years ago, when I visited Pelican Bay State Prison on the northern coast of California, prison staff explained the rules. They gave me a stab vest and a handy piece of information ...

Nanci Joan (Metzler) Budnick, 82, of Vernon, passed away on Thursday, January 23, 2025, at Manchester Memorial Hospital. Born in New Britain, she was the beloved daughter of the late William ...

A group of Venezuelan gang members was sent to Guantanamo Bay as part of a new immigration crackdown by President Trump. The notorious prison, known for past human rights abuses, will now hold up ...