The Sioux Empire Fair is disinclined to pay a fair wage for inmate labor: The general manager of the Sioux Empire Fair says they have…
Tag: Department of Corrections
Last week, Beth Warden reported that Secretary of Corrections Kellie Wasko is having penitentiary inmates build a $13,000 solid red oak desk. That beats the…
Bubbling on out swift Senate’s stove is Senate Bill 52, an extensive revision of laws related to prisons, sentencing, executions, and other matters. The Department…
When the Governor’s Office announced immediate pay raises for state prison personnel on Thursday, Corrections Secretary Kellie Wasko praised Governor Kristi Noem for driving providing…
In May 2021, KSFY’s Beth Warden reported on an anonymous letter from a Corrections employee alleged a whole host of problems in South Dakota’s prisons.…
All that studying and consulting the Governor had us pay for didn’t come fast enough to stop another complaint to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission…
CGL Companies’ review of South Dakota’s Department of Corrections, released Tuesday amidst the overwhelming storm of attention to the Ravnsborg impeachment, focuses most of its…
Governor Kristi Noem chose impeachment day as a convenient time to release unpleasant news from her Corrections Department. Last August, after Noem’s headline-grabbing purge of…
Governor Kristi Noem has flattened the curve of vacancies in the Department of Corrections. According to DOC officials speaking to the Joint Appropriations Committee in…
In another win for workers, protest from Corrections employees who were promised fairer holiday pay last summer but saw no action from the Governor has…