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 ...
A high-profile inmate escape, the resignation of the prisons director, and reports that fences, doors and windows were ...
From Thursday’s print edition Mary Ann Hron has lived near the state women’s prison in Shakopee for 47 years and says the only time she ever encountered a wayward inmate was when she ...