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Inmates sleep in a cell in the medium custody section of the Ada County Jail, Oct. 17, 2023. The jail’s infrastructure is from 1995, even as the number of its inmates has doubled.
On March 29, 2011, a reporter from a CBS affiliate station in Minnesota interviewed Denny Hecker (15080-041), an inmate at FPC Duluth. Hecker, who made millions of dollars as the owner of car dealerships, was serving a 10-year sentence after pleading guilty to bankruptcy fraud in 2010. The reporter, Esme Murphy, described the interview:
The Minnesota Department of Corrections is a state law enforcement agency of Minnesota that operates prisons. Its headquarters is in St. Paul. [1] As of 2010, the state of Minnesota does not contract with private prisons. [2] The first and only private prison in the state, the Prairie Correctional Facility, was closed by its owner in 2010. [3] [4]
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Ada County Sheriff Matt Clifford said Wednesday marked “a hard morning.” Whether to raise property taxes to pay for a $49 million bond that in turn would pay for 294 new jail beds was on Ada ...
Telephone service for inmates allows for their rehabilitation by allowing consistent communication with their family and legal counsel while incarcerated. [ 1 ] : 65–66, 74 In the United States, prison telecom is a $ 1.2 billion industry, mostly controlled by two private equity-backed companies [ 2 ] [ 3 ] : 23 — Global Tel Link (GTL) with ...
Despite the jail’s overcrowding, the number of arrests throughout Ada County has declined in the last 10 years. In 2022, law enforcement agencies throughout the county made 10,495 arrests ...
As of March 2023, it had an adult inmate population of about 2,000 men, [2] making it the largest prison in Minnesota by population. The facility is built on land the state has managed and maintained since 1879 when it was founded as, "Minnesota Experimental School for the Feeble Minded." This included children who were, "Deaf and Dumb and the ...