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…
Tag: prison
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…
The Legislative Research Council has released prison population data for April 2018. The state penitentiary in Sioux Falls had 4% more prisoners than projected in…
…who can write a 55-page position paper on the impacts of family breakdown and drug abuse on crime and incarceration rates in South Dakota, with…
South Dakota had the second-highest juvenile incarceration rate in the country while having a juvenile violent crime arrest rate only one third of the national…