Before its first meeting Wednesday, the Correctional Rehabilitation Task Force had the chance to sit in with the Legislature’s Initial Incarceration, Reentry Analysis, and Comparison…
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Before turning our prisons into another arm of the creeping theocracy, maybe South Dakota’s prison reformers should look at simpler plans to help prisoners regain…
On Tuesday, Governor Larry Rhoden named the members of his new correctional rehabilitation task force. Here’s the full roster of 30 South Dakotans tasked with…
Governor Larry Rhoden quickly made good on his promise to create a criminal rehabilitation task force if the Legislature approved his $650-million prison plan. Right…
Is there something about living in South Dakota that helps me think like a prisoner? I hit “Publish” on my last article, on North Dakota’s…
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…
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…
Senate Bill 143 was another attempt to end South Dakota’s exceptional and costly treatment of ingesting illegal drugs as a felony. Last month SB 143…
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:…
Donald Trump has spent the year doing the opposite of what judge-turned-Congressional candidate Tim Bjorkman recommends. Trump’s Bureau of Prisons, under the Department of Justice,…