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…
Tag: prison
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…
The Legislature’s Appropriations Committee gets to hear from the Department of Corrections on Wednesday on what it’s doing to fill its growing empty positions. According…
Hey, did you notice that one of the Corrections officials Governor Noem fired in response to an anonymous complaint about sexual harassment is complaining that…
A week and a half ago, Governor Kristi Noem told disgruntled state penitentiary workers that she can’t raise their pay with one-time money (“…salary policy has…
Speaking of North Dakota and sensible reforms, perhaps South Dakota could find a blueprint for improving working conditions in our state prisons by looking at…
Governor Kristi Noem has one hammer—deregulation—in her tool box, and by gum, she’s going to use it to whack every problem. After she met with…
I don’t think I’d last long as a prison guard. As a super welterweight with toothpick arms, I lack both the strength and the jujitsu to intimidate…
Last week, inmates at the Walworth County Jail sued the county in federal court, arguing that the 111-year-old facility was “outdated, grossly inadequate, and dangerous.”…