In its detailed report on the switch in political focus from building a new prison to working on rehabilitation to reduce the number of South…
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Governor Larry Rhoden quickly made good on his promise to create a criminal rehabilitation task force if the Legislature approved his $650-million prison plan. Right…
Governor Larry Rhoden and Lieutenant Governor Tony Venhuizen, who led the Governor’s prison refit study committee, scored a big policy and political victory yesterday as…
The vote count on the new prison must be tight: Governor Larry Rhoden and the GOP establishment propaganda machine are going all out with weekend…
The big Special Session on the new prison is coming up Tuesday. Governor Larry Rhoden is thus loading up lawmakers and the voters with numbers…
In further rearrangement of Kristi Noem’s old furniture, Governor Larry Rhoden yesterday announced the resignation of the Corrections Secretary Noem imported from Colorado: Gov. Larry…
America is not Nazi Germany. We give our concentration camps cute, catchy names: “COMING SOON to Nebraska: Cornhusker Clink. Today, we’re announcing a new partnership…
Perhaps nervous that the Legislature may still balk at building a new penitentiary, Governor Larry Rhoden may be working on a Plan B to reduce…
Last month Governor Rhoden’s Prison Task Force made clear that if the Legislature will approve the money, the state will build a new prison in…
Sioux Falls blogger Joe Kirby says maybe that patch of state land four miles south of Harrisburg in Lincoln County is the best spot for…