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?…
Tag: prison
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…
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…
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…