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…
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(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…
Governor Kristi Noem’s pay raises for prison personnel depend on job vacancies remaining open. Corrections Secretary Kellie Wasko told Joint Appropriations last week that the…
More than a year after sacking Corrections leadership and promising to address the labor shortage, racial and sexual harassment, and poor working conditions in South Dakota’s prisons,…
Beth Warden reports that Governor Kristi Noem’s promise to improve pay and working conditions in South Dakota’s prisons continues to fall short of solving the…
In May 2021, KSFY’s Beth Warden reported on an anonymous letter from a Corrections employee alleged a whole host of problems in South Dakota’s prisons.…