The mayor at a press conference on Friday said that there is no space and few resources in the current State Penitentiary to ...

State prison offender Anthony Richards has died. According to the Department of Corrections, Richards died at the Jameson ...

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

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

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

Governor Larry Rhoden calls it “gothic” and studies have shown it’s outdated and unsafe. Photos show a view of the current ...

Richards passed away at the Jameson Annex to the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls on February 6, 2025. Richards ...

Matthew Lee Mierkey, 59, pleaded guilty to multiple habitual offender charges on Jan. 23. A sentencing hearing is not set in ...

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