prisons

The movement of women inmates to the Youth Correctional Center in Mandan will begin this month.Women are housed at the facility in the Dakota Women’s…

The director of transition planning services for the state’s Department of Correction and Rehabilitation said DOCR had hoped it wouldn’t have to activate…

The legislature approved a study of the Department of Corrections over the next two year period.It comes in the wake of a proposal by the Department and…

Journeys Through Justice producer Meg Luther Lindholm sits down with Bill Thomas to review what has been happening with the stories she reports on in this…

One of the success stories in North Dakota’s criminal justice system has been its drug courts. In this Journeys Through Justice story, Meg Luther Lindholm…

No one starts using drugs with the goal of becoming hopelessly addicted. But that is what often happens. In this Journeys Through Justice story, Meg…

A conversation about Addiction and Incarceration with North Dakota Senator Judy Lee and Representative Kathy Hogan.Figuring out how to reduce overcrowding…

North Dakota's addiction treatment.

North Dakota studies an approach to prison modeled by Norway that is much less punitive.

Two Legislative interim committees have approved bill drafts designed to help curb the growth in the state’s prison population.The bills would reduce…