Nick Lamb is South Dakota’s new secretary of corrections. He began in November and is in charge of the state’s prison ...

Do we spend the money when they’re so young so they have the chance to become good productive citizens, or do we spend it on ...

The prison's Level III security status requires continuously controlled perimeters and a wall or double perimeter fencing ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - The South South Dakota Bureau of Finance & Management released their Five-Year Capital Expenditure ...

The South Dakota Department of Corrections still needs to hire about 133 employees for the Level III secure facility, which ...

Lawmakers convened Jan. 13 for the formal address, which served as an outline of Gov. Rhoden's agenda for South Dakota's ...

"Maybe we can have respectful discussions and find good compromises, but it could also become a rodeo-and-a-half, too," said Sen. Jim Mehlhaff of Pierre.

(SOUTH DAKOTA SEARCHLIGHT) - Paul Cooper remembers when the crank radios showed up in Leavenworth. By then, he’d done time in South Dakota’s state prisons, where inmates used electrical outlets to ...

"Maybe we can have respectful discussions and find good compromises, but it could also become a rodeo-and-a-half, too." ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A Rapid City woman, 23, is headed to prison for the maximum sentence following a case of attempted aggravated child abuse. According to a press release from the Pennington ...

As more women enter state prisons while pregnant, lawmakers and corrections officials are expanding prison nursery programs, ...