A poem from the South Dakota State Penitentiary:
Tag: prison
South Dakota is the only state where ingestion of a controlled substance draws felony punishment. Ryan Redler received one such felony conviction for taking meth…
Quiet and constant social reformer Lawrence Diggs told the Green Aberdeen Chautauqua yesterday about his work with South Dakota’s prisoners. Among other projects, he spoke…
In good news, fewer people are in jail! According to the Legislative Research Council’s latest prison population report, South Dakota had 209 fewer people behind…
Remember that March interview Senator Lynne DiSanto did with the biological mother of the little girl whose February disappearance DiSanto has been exploiting for publicity?…
In today’s local slice of South Dakota’s incarceration crisis, the Brown County Jail has been running at nearly double its capacity: Sheriff Mark Milbrandt said…
While Governor Kristi Noem feels the need to lock herself up behind a fence, the state is locking fewer people up in its prisons. The…
Just like Governor Kristi Noem, the Jameson Annex Lifers Group at the South Dakota Penitentiary seeks transparency, constructive communication, and positive influence in the Legislature:…
Rio Thompson was released from the South Dakota State Penitentiary in February. As he prepared for his winter release, he sent this letter to Dakota…
A couple millennia ago, an execution sparked a religious revolution. As our state continues the unfair, unjust, and wasteful practice of killing prisoners, let’s hear…