Six years ago in this space, we endorsed a plan by the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) to finally erect a fence around the state women’s prison in Shakopee. The idea was shot down ...

A fence with barbed wire encircles the water tower across from the state women’s prison in Shakopee. A plain chain-link fence lines the Catholic cemetery. But five years after local opposition ...

Residents in a picturesque marina are no longer able to help out their neighbours on the water after housing bosses ripped out their plant-lined walls and replaced them with 'prison-style' fencing.

Upon reviewing CCTV footage, police say at least four prison inmates jumped the prison fence on the night of July 19 between 7pm and 11pm. A spokesman for the Northern Territory Department of ...

Deputies said they spotted two men trying to toss an item over the prison fence before running into a nearby cornfield. Authorities conducted a traffic stop on Highway 24 near the prison and later ...