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…
Tag: prison
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…
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…
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…