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…
Tag: Department of Corrections
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…
In July, Governor Kristi Noem started purging prison staff and dug into one-time money to temporarily offer retention bonuses and raise pay in hopes of addressing a…
Governor Kristi Noem appointed Mike Leidholt to run the Department of Corrections at the very start of her administration. So obviously he (and she) couldn’t be…
Hey, did you notice that one of the Corrections officials Governor Noem fired in response to an anonymous complaint about sexual harassment is complaining that…
Following her meeting with State Penitentiary staff about their complaints about long overtime hours, low pay, and poor working conditions, Governor Kristi Noem took questions…
Governor Kristi Noem’s purge of the Department of Corrections has expanded. After suspending Corrections Secretary Mike Leidholt and State Pentitiary Warden Darin Young Tuesday evening,…
So the state fails to give State Penitentiary guards enough pay and support, and the Governor suspends the Warden and the Corrections Secretary? An anonymous…