Supporters plan to welcome Native American activist Leonard Peltier back to his North Dakota community after his release from ...

South Dakota’s $825 million prison project in rural Lincoln County faces legislative and legal hurdles as the proposed site and price tag come under fire.

The South Dakota State Penitentiary and nearby Jameson Annex are on lockdown. The state Department of Corrections said in a ...

Native American activist Leonard Peltier, convicted of killing two FBI agents and incarcerated for nearly five decades while maintaining his innocence, was released from a Florida prison on Tuesday ...

"A prison, like a jail, is a necessary government function, and it must be located somewhere," a state circuit judge ruled.

Landowners near the new Lincoln County prison site railed against the Department of Corrections for a lack of transparency ...

The price tag for a new men’s prison in South Dakota is $825 million for 1,500 beds. That’s $550,000 per bed. It should come ...

South Dakota's four-year process to address the state's correctional needs evolved into a plan to build a new men's prison on ...

Former South Dakota House speaker Steve Haugaard is trying to get the legislature to hit the brakes on funding a new men’s ...

PIERRE — There is “a real possibility” that South Dakota lawmakers say no to Gov. Larry Rhoden’s request for the final $182 million needed to fund a new men’s prison, a Republican leader said Thursday ...