Lawmakers on an audit committee got a rundown Monday about a weekslong lockdown at the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls, but every word that hadn’t already appeared in state prison press ...
Corrections Secretary Kellie Wasko speaks to lawmakers on Feb. 21, 2024, in Pierre. (John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight) Corrections Secretary Kellie Wasko told the South Dakota Corrections Commission ...
SIOUX FALLS | A shortage of donated firewood supplies is hampering sweat lodge purification ceremonies for South Dakota State Penitentiary inmates. The sweat lodge ceremonies are usually held six ...
The South Dakota Department of Corrections says it will rebuild three sweat lodges dismantled during a weekslong lockdown at the state penitentiary in Sioux Falls. The DOC started what it described as ...