Minnesota is getting ready to close a state prison for the first time in more than 100 years. WCCO shows you what that looks like and what it means for public safety. Jonah Kaplan explains how that ...

BAYPORT, Minn. — The B-East cell hall at Stillwater prison was once a place of echoing lockdowns and razor-edged tension. “Some things that’ll never leave,” said Lt. Sam Marks, recalling the stabbings ...

Jonah Kaplan is an award-winning journalist who has built a strong reputation for his balanced reporting, thoughtful interviews, and deeply researched coverage of high-impact issues affecting the ...

Imagine working full time for 32 years and having nothing to show for it. For more than three decades, I put in my eight hours per day but couldn’t buy birthday presents for my kids. I could barely ...

It appears former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert has returned to Chicago. Records show that Hastert is no longer at the federal prison hospital in Rochester, Minnesota, where he was serving a ...