In an update to lawmakers, the DOC reported a population of 487 at Stillwater and scaled-down staffing as the facility works toward full closure by 2029. Inmates’ cells at Minnesota Correctional ...

The Minnesota Department of Corrections has reduced the Stillwater prison population by 60% as it prepares to close the facility. In January, more than 1,200 inmates were at the 111-year-old prison.

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We’re heartened to see even the smallest increase in human dignity behind bars, like the earned living unit at Stillwater Correctional Facility: Men sleeping safely in their own cells; “high” wages ...

Since then, the department has moved nearly 750 people, mostly to the Rush City and Lino Lakes prisons. The transfers mark the start of a sweeping, yearslong realignment of Minnesota’s prison system — ...