All that studying and consulting the Governor had us pay for didn’t come fast enough to stop another complaint to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission…
Tag: prison
CGL Companies’ review of South Dakota’s Department of Corrections, released Tuesday amidst the overwhelming storm of attention to the Ravnsborg impeachment, focuses most of its…
Governor Kristi Noem chose impeachment day as a convenient time to release unpleasant news from her Corrections Department. Last August, after Noem’s headline-grabbing purge of…
The State of South Dakota has a $608-million-dollar plan to build new prisons. Legislators, counties, and sheriffs are clamoring for some of those dollars to build…
In the undercard to Beth Warden’s prison food story, we learn that Governor Kristi Noem’s 2021 prison purge and reform posturing appear not to have…
An anonymous South Dakota prison guard tells KSFY’s Beth Warden what South Dakota Penitentiary lifer Shane Bell told us in 2019—prison food is bad: This Correctional…
At a crackerbarrel in Alexandria Saturday, an eager reader heard House Majority Leader Kent Peterson (R-19/Salem) refer to a proposal to spend a few hundred…
Remember Noem’s big summer purge of the Corrections Department and her big talk about reforms to support guards and other prison workers? Well, evidently, Noem’s…
In July, Governor Kristi Noem started purging prison staff and dug into one-time money to temporarily offer retention bonuses and raise pay in hopes of addressing a…
On Monday, I noticed that the slides the Department of Corrections had submitted to the Joint Appropriations Committee for its Wednesday briefing mentioned that the…