The South Dakota Department of Corrections said Sunday that 55-year-old inmate Joseph Schmitz died at the Mike Durfee State ...

A South Dakota state prisoner has died of apparent natural causes at the Mike Durfee State Prison in Springfield.

Project Prison Reset’s task force is set to focus on 14 options for new prison facilities in South Dakota. The group is ...

SPRINGFIELD, South Dakota — Months of growing discontent at Mike Durfee State Prison in Springfield came to a head after multiple inmates were involved in an altercation Tuesday night. Multiple ...

Mike Durfee State Prison wasn’t originally built to house inmates but rather college students. In 1984, the state closed the University of South Dakota Springfield campus, put up barbed wire and ...

Chipps, now 39, is an inmate serving at the Mike Durfee State Prison in Springfield, South Dakota. He has been staring down the barrel of a 31-year sentence for breaking into a Whitewood couples ...

SPRINGFIELD, South Dakota — Months of growing discontent at Mike Durfee State Prison in Springfield came to a head after multiple inmates were involved in an altercation Tuesday night.

Chris Chipps, an inmate at the Mike Durfee State Prison in South Dakota has a lengthy criminal history. His recent TikTok fame is helping him move on.

SPRINGFIELD, South Dakota — Months of growing discontent at Mike Durfee State Prison in Springfield came to a head after multiple inmates were involved in an altercation Tuesday night. Multiple ...

Inmates sit on their windows trying to cool off on Wednesday, July 10, 2024, at Mike Durfee State Prison in Springfield, South Dakota. "We're locked down. There was a riot.