KSFY gets another anonymous letter, purportedly from inside the State Penitentiary, indicating that Governor Kristi Noem and her new prison leaders aren’t solving long-standing issues…
Tag: South Dakota State Penitentiary
At a crackerbarrel in Alexandria Saturday, an eager reader heard House Majority Leader Kent Peterson (R-19/Salem) refer to a proposal to spend a few hundred…
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…
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…
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…
Governor Kristi Noem’s purge of the Department of Corrections has expanded. After suspending Corrections Secretary Mike Leidholt and State Pentitiary Warden Darin Young Tuesday evening,…
So the state fails to give State Penitentiary guards enough pay and support, and the Governor suspends the Warden and the Corrections Secretary? An anonymous…
In the spirit of Governor Kristi Noem’s call to identify with the downtrodden, I consider renaming my series of letters from the South Dakota State…