(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…
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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…
I received a letter “Mailed from a South Dakota Correctional Facility” a few days ago. Two small pieces of tape held the envelope shut; the…