Half the people released from prison in South Dakota return within three years, according to the state Department of ...

South Dakota's treatment courts show a 73% success rate in preventing new felony offenses within five years. The program ...

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 160 acres of farmland in Lincoln County between Harrisburg and Canton, ...

From left, Lt. Gov. Tony Venhuizen, Ryan Brunner of the Governor's Office, and Corrections Secretary Kellie Wasko listen to testimony at a Project Prison Reset meeting on April 29, 2025, in ...

The South Dakota Department of Corrections announced the state's largest prison has been placed on lockdown. The South Dakota State Penitentiary and Jameson Annex, an adjacent maximum security ...

South Dakota corrections Secretary Nick Lamb says synthetic cannabinoids like K2 are fueling overdoses and challenges in ...

About 338 of every 100,000 women are behind bars in the state. Officials say the new facility could finally curb the nation’s ...

Eric Ollila is weighing a morbid thought: Does someone have to die to get any real change at South Dakota's largest prison? Ollila hears the same from the correctional officers he represents as the ...

Teresa Bittinger is no longer warden of the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls. Department of Corrections (DOC) employees got an email late Tuesday evening from Director of Prisons Amber ...

R APID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - South Dakota is seeing an increase in prison overdoses, with drugs cited in the deaths of eight ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The South Dakota State Penitentiary and Jameson Annex in Sioux Falls went into lockdown status at 11:30 Sunday night. The Department of Corrections isn’t saying what led up ...

LINCOLN COUNTY, S.D. (South Dakota News Watch) - 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 160 acres of farmland in ...