State officials say a corrections officer was attacked by an inmate at a housing unit security post, and during the assault, an inmate who witnessed it as well as a second corrections officer, intervened to try and stop it. That's when officials say a third inmate jumped in and started assaulting the second officer.
Brown water, scorching summer heat with no air conditioning, one visitation day per week. Those incarcerated in Minnesota Correctional Facility-Stillwater didn’t expect prison life would be easy living, but no one told them it would be like this. “We filtered the water with socks,” former Stillwater inmate Jesse Curry said. “It was medieval.” Minnesota Correctional Facility-Stillwater was the .
The Minnesota Supreme Court has suspended the law license of Twin Cities attorney Michael B. Padden and is considering whether to disbar him after a judge found that Padden mismanaged and misappropriated client funds, repeatedly failed to show up for court hearings, forged a client’s signature on a payment agreement and urged another client not to appear for a sentencing hearing.