But wait! The ACLU and I were incorrectly cranky! While the Senate did table SCR 7, which would have authorized a summer study on alternatives…
Tag: prison
Update 12:38 CST: Hold the phone… or change those calls to your legislators from cranky to grateful! Multiple Pierre denizens point out to me that…
On January 10, I published a letter from convicted murderer Shane Bell describing the beginning of a typical day in the Jameson Annex of South…
The 1994 Crime Bill banned Pell Grants to prisoners. In 2015, the Obama Administration created the Second Chance Pell Program, which allows a maximum of…
I received a letter “Mailed from a South Dakota Correctional Facility” a few days ago. Two small pieces of tape held the envelope shut; the…
Our new Attorney General may be a bigger idiot than Donald Trump, but at least we have the American Civil Liberties Union to talk sense…
Incoming Attorney General (that seems to exaggerate it; can’t we say “Corporal”? “Ensign”? “Petty Officer”?) Jason Ravnsborg says he’s going to end presumptive probation, which…
The Trump Administration isn’t counting how many people die in its custody, but the Legislative Research Council can tell you how many folks were living…
Is the bail-bond industry on the same page as the American Civil Liberties Union? Not likely. As part of its new Smart Justice campaign to…
“When you’re looking for a lawyer, you don’t check their political registration. You look for the best person to do the job.” In those two…