Under King Don, Uncle Sam wants you to execute members of Congress, undermine public health, and sell out allies to flattering dictators. Meanwhile, Lifer Sam…
Tag: Pen Pen
(Dang, maybe I need to sign on with Senator Bolin’s objection to officially renaming the state penitentiary and other prisons as “correctional facilities.” Pen Pen works…
Is there something about living in South Dakota that helps me think like a prisoner? I hit “Publish” on my last article, on North Dakota’s…
I don’t think I’d last long as a prison guard. As a super welterweight with toothpick arms, I lack both the strength and the jujitsu to intimidate…
Senate Bill 143 was another attempt to end South Dakota’s exceptional and costly treatment of ingesting illegal drugs as a felony. Last month SB 143…
Eleven years ago, Kevin LaWayne Brown, Jr., killed a man in Wichita who his girlfriend said had raped her two years before. Brown now resides…
While the golfing criminal in the White House tries to suppress voting, a felon in South Dakota’s big house urges us all to exercise the…
In the spirit of Governor Kristi Noem’s call to identify with the downtrodden, I consider renaming my series of letters from the South Dakota State…
A poem from the South Dakota State Penitentiary:
South Dakota is the only state where ingestion of a controlled substance draws felony punishment. Ryan Redler received one such felony conviction for taking meth…