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 ...
While House Bill 1025 now goes to the House Committee on Appropriations in Pierre, the House State Affairs committee gave no ...
Sioux Falls Police chief John Thum believes that a modern facility would benefit the state. In the late 1980’s Chief Thum’s ...
A former employee of the Mike Durfee State Prison in Springfield was sentenced to prison Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025 after pleading ...
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.
Drug ingestion would no longer be a felony crime on the first or second offense under the terms of a bill endorsed by a ...
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 ...