People in Dane County will not have the opportunity to vote on a proposed reconsolidated and renovation project for the Dane County Jail after the county board rejected a proposal to add a referendum for the project to the April ballot.
Dane County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett is reacting to the new Jail Consolidation Plan proposed by the Black Caucus of the Dane County Board, and he’s not convinced it’s a good idea.
The Green County Sheriff's Office says a shortage of female jail deputies is forcing them to send women nearly an hour away to the Iowa County jail instead.
The Dane County Sheriff's Office says a woman is facing criminal charges after allegedly trying to smuggle methamphetamines and fentanyl to a man inside the Dane County Jail.
For the first time since March 2020, people in the Dane County Jail will be able to have visitors.
A former jailer for the Marquette County Sheriff's Department allegedly sent multiple messages soliciting sex to someone who told him he was 14 years old, according to a criminal complaint filed last week.
Police say Demone Cummins and Amond Galtney have been arrested in connection to the shooting outside the Dane Co. Jail Wednesday evening, which left a man in his 30s dead.
MADISON, Wis. -- Madison police say a person of interest taken into custody following Wednesday's deadly downtown shooting is now considered a suspect. During a Thursday afternoon press conference, Madison…
Police are investigating a shooting outside the Dane County Jail in Madison Wednesday evening, the Madison Police Department confirmed.
MADISON, Wis. -- Quadren Wilson is back in the Dane County Jail after undergoing surgery Tuesday night, according to the Dane County Sheriff's Office.…
MADISON, Wis. -- As many coronavirus restrictions begin relaxing next week, the Wisconsin Department of Corrections says it will once again allow in-person visitation beginning…
MADISON, Wis. -- Law enforcement leaders are stepping up their push for a new Dane County jail. Dane County Sheriff Kalvin…
As two proposals for the Dane County Jail Consolidation Project make their way through the committee process one County leader is asking the Sheriff and board to consider a third option that would keep the project under budget.
There is a spike in COVID-19 cases at the Dane County Jail with 10 percent of the jail’s 552 residents reported positive for the virus Thursday.
MADISON, Wis. -- All adult inmates in Wisconsin correctional facilities will have their personal mail photocopied and delivered on fresh paper in an effort to reduce the prevalence of hard-to-detect drugs being sent to them, the state's Department of Corrections…
The Dane County Sheriff's office says a deputy saved someone from choking in the Dane County jail Monday.
Authorities with the Dane County Sheriff's Office announced Monday plans to refer to incarcerated community members as residents rather than inmates.
Two correction officers responsible for guarding Jeffrey Epstein when he took his own life have been charged with falsifying records.
Newly released video of an inmate who escaped from the Cuyahoga County Jail earlier this month shows the man casually walking out of the facility to freedom, WEWS reported.
The re-CYCLE program is gaining traction in Michigan's Oakland County near Detroit, and the sheriff's department says more bikes are needed for inmates to work on and give out to those in need.
In a town with the same name as a famous fictional cat, a 79-year-old woman is sentenced to jail time for feeding stray cats, but the story is a little less straight forward that you would believe.
While in jail awaiting trial, Jeffrey Epstein was served with legal papers in connection with a pending lawsuit filed by a woman who says Epstein raped her when she was 15 years old, court documents show.
Chelsea Manning was once again found in contempt by a federal judge for refusing to testify before a grand jury and will return to jail, just seven days after being released from the same jail.
Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, recently released from jail after refusing to testify about her disclosure of military and diplomatic secrets to WikiLeaks in 2010, said Sunday she doesn't know if she'll be sent back to jail after another planned refusal to answer questions before a grand jury this week.
