Due to a change in disciplinary process with inmates, assaults are up at MN State Prisons.
“A KSTP check of Department of Corrections records for every Minnesota prison facility found there have been 22 reported inmate assaults on prison guards through the first three months of 2018. That’s more than the past two years combined; there were a total of 13 assaults in 2017 and eight in 2016.
Fitzgerald explained why the Department of Corrections made the policy change in late 2016 in this statement:”