I like Dusty Johnson, and I’d rather he be Governor than boring, trudgerous Larry Rhoden. But Dusty’s attack on Larry for a lack of action…
Tag: prison
Hey, did you hear all that talk about rehabilitation and recidivism during the 2026 Legislative Session? No, neither did I, and neither did Representative Brian…
Jail ’em all, let God sort ’em out… Topping the Correctional Rehabilitation Task Force’s list of ways to reverse South Dakota’s surging recidivism is a…
King Don has strangely mused about getting into heaven. Maybe Pope Leo can straighten him out on prepping for Judgment Day: Pope Leo XIV called…
Before its first meeting Wednesday, the Correctional Rehabilitation Task Force had the chance to sit in with the Legislature’s Initial Incarceration, Reentry Analysis, and Comparison…
The Department of Corrections told the newly convened Correctional Rehabilitation Task Force yesterday that, as of June 30, 1,048 out of the 3,783 convicts it…
Before turning our prisons into another arm of the creeping theocracy, maybe South Dakota’s prison reformers should look at simpler plans to help prisoners regain…
Governor Larry Rhoden has booked Iowa’s deputy director of institutional operations Nick Lamb to replace freshly resigned and much maligned South Dakota Corrections Secretary Kellie…
On Tuesday, Governor Larry Rhoden named the members of his new correctional rehabilitation task force. Here’s the full roster of 30 South Dakotans tasked with…
Well, we think we’ll have enough beds in the new Rhoden/Venhuizen prison to hold all of our overflow prisoners, but South Dakota’s prison population growth…