Shakopee / Department of Corrections - Minnesota's State Portal
MCF-Shakopee is a state prison for women in Shakopee, MN. It offers various programs and services for inmates, such as cognitive behavioral interventions, chemical dependency and mental health treatment, and academic and vocational education.
Minnesota Correctional Facility – Shakopee - Wikipedia
The Minnesota Correctional Facility – Shakopee (MCF-SHK) is a women-only state prison in Minnesota, USA. [1] Constructed in 1986 and located in Shakopee, Scott County, it is Minnesota's only facility for housing female offenders. [2] MCF-SHK is home to …
The history of Minnesota’s only women’s prison, in Shakopee
Jan 11, 2021 · By 1986, the population was up to eighty-five women. The state moved the prison across the street to a new, larger facility, Minnesota Correctional Facility-Shakopee.
Minnesota State Reformatory for Women, Shakopee - MNopedia
Jan 5, 2021 · Minnesota Correctional Facility-Shakopee (MCF-Shakopee) is Minnesota’s only state women’s prison. Women reformers pushed for its existence in the 1910s, arguing that women needed a place away from men where they could receive training instead of punishment.
Shakopee State Women's Reformatory - State Prisons: Historical …
Oct 2, 2024 · Minnesota Correctional Facility-Shakopee (MCF-Shakopee) is Minnesota’s only state women’s prison. Women reformers pushed for its existence in the 1910s, arguing that women needed a place away from men where they could receive training instead of punishment. It opened in 1920 as the State Reformatory for Women.
Groups rally outside Shakopee women's prison, allege history of …
Jun 23, 2022 · MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) --The Minnesota Department of Corrections is being called out for what some say is a lack of action on allegations of sexual assault at the women's prison in Shakopee.
Reform Within Shakopee Women’s Prison
Feb 23, 2021 · Between 2013 and 2020, she says, there were 278 pregnant women coming through the Shakopee correctional facility, and about half give birth during their incarceration term. This program would offer a much better setting for women whose infraction with the …
Minnesota Correctional Facility - MCF Shakopee - InmateAid
Feb 18, 2024 · The Minnesota Correctional Facility – Shakopee is a women-only state prison in Scott County, it is Minnesota's only facility for housing female offenders. MCF-Shakopee is home to 500+ women of all five custody levels.
Shakopee women's prison to finally get a fence - MPR News
May 20, 2014 · The Shakopee prison houses more than 600 women, including nearly a hundred serving sentences for homicide. State money is poised to give it something it's never had before: a fence.
To fence, or not to fence the Shakopee women's prison
Feb 6, 2006 · Corrections officials say Shakopee may be the only prison in the country that houses violent offenders without a fence.