Lawmakers advanced a bill that would appropriate the last round of one-time funding needed to pay for a new men's prison.

KELOLAND News hadn’t had the chance to bring a camera behind the walls of the South Dakota State Penitentiary in recent years ...

Sioux Falls Police chief John Thum believes that a modern facility would benefit the state. In the late 1980’s Chief Thum’s ...

The bill to fund the last portion of a new men’s prison in Lincoln County will advance to the House Appropriations Committee ...

While House Bill 1025 now goes to the House Committee on Appropriations in Pierre, the House State Affairs committee gave no ...

A former employee of the Mike Durfee State Prison in Springfield was sentenced to prison Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025 after pleading ...

A former state prison guard who pleaded guilty to a sexual affair with an inmate has been sentenced to 90 days in the state ...

The South Dakota Legislature faces a packed agenda Wednesday (Feb. 12, 2025). The House State Affairs Committee meets to consider the Department of Corrections Lincoln County prison construction bill.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Among the stops on a tour Wednesday of the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls was a group shower, a location which the state Department of Corrections ...

The 36-year-old woman, a former employee of the Mike Durfee State Prison in Springfield, was sentenced Tuesday in Bon Homme County Circuit Court, according to a release from the South Dakota ...