Two men who fled a prison boot camp and went on a crime spree through several western Wisconsin towns were caught more than a week later in Florida, but not after making it difficult for police to collar them, authorities said. Police dogs and a helicopter were used in the pursuit.

Two juvenile inmates from the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Red Wing who went missing Monday have been recaptured, KARE 11 reports.

More than two weeks after her arrest, Anoka County jail officials have finally identified a female inmate who refused to give her name to authorities. Police say the woman, whom they previously referred to as Jane Doe, is actually 37-year-old Tammy Antoinette Thomas. Thomas has been charged with two counts of identity theft and house theft, in addition to her original charges of trespassing and stealing a SUV.

Minnesota prisons are joining other states nationwide that are allowing inmates to receive emails. MPR reports that the emails, which began this week, are coordinated by Iowa-based Advanced Technologies Group, which sends the emails to prison mailrooms. The messages are then printed out by staff members and delivered along with regular mail.

Four puppies are on their way to becoming service dogs thanks to the efforts of a Twin Cities program and the Federal Prison Camp in Duluth. Through the program Pawsitive Perspectives Assistance Dogs, or PawPADs, inmates will take two years to train the puppies in to disability dogs to help diabetics and the physically handicapped.

The medical director for the state Department of Corrections told the Star Tribune prison medical staff failed to quarantine a prisoner with a history of leprosy who had visible lesions. The offender was held in the general population in prisons at St. Cloud and Rush city for nearly two months this spring, exposing prison staff and hundreds of inmates to the communicable disease.