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…
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Lincoln County residents who don’t want the state to build a new penitentiary in their backyard have come with a clever name for the campaign…
KELO-TV runs a story with the headline “Lincoln County Commission Weighs in on Prison Plans”. But nowhere does the story cite any action by the…
142 years ago, Sioux Falls chose to house inmates rather than scholars. As the state now plans to move the penitentiary from the scenic and…
According to new data from the Prison Policy Initiative, South Dakota keeps 6,500 people locked up each day. That’s an incarceration rate of 824 per…
(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…
Senate Bill 52, which Senator Helene Duhamel (R-32/Rapid City) deems a “true clean-up bill”, barreled through the Senate this week with little discussion and a…
Bubbling on out swift Senate’s stove is Senate Bill 52, an extensive revision of laws related to prisons, sentencing, executions, and other matters. The Department…
KSFY gets another anonymous letter, purportedly from inside the State Penitentiary, indicating that Governor Kristi Noem and her new prison leaders aren’t solving long-standing issues…