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…
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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.…
Steven Haugaard’s press team hasn’t gotten around to capitalizing on the continuing investigations into Kristi Noem’s corruption yet, because, apparently, Team Haugaard can only do one…
The Governor’s Office didn’t want to comment to the local press on the worsening staff shortage in South Dakota’s prison system. In her latest story…
When she purged prison leadership last summer, Governor Kristi Noem said she’d fix the problems in South Dakota’s prison system, including the poor working conditions…
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…
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…