PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — Legislation that would toughen penalties for possessing or ingesting illegal drugs in South Dakota’s ...

Rep. Mike Derby, a Republican from Rapid City who co-chairs the Joint Committee on Appropriations, told News Watch that salary increases for correctional staff has “been on the radar” of lawmakers for ...

(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 ...

The state Department of Corrections, which has struggled to maintain workers in the past, must hire 133 staff members for the ...

Utica, N.Y. ― A former prison guard from Mid-State Correctional Facility has been sentenced for planting evidence after the ...

Wife of slain Anamosa correctional officer can move forward in her gross negligence claims against the Iowa Department of ...

Measure would increase criminal penalties for drugs inside state correctional facilities.

An inmate in the Lewis Complex at Buckeye State Prison has died following an altercation with his cellmate, officials confirmed. The death of Joshua Walker, 41, is being investigated as a homicide, ...

PHILADELPHIA — No one wants to lose, but Mike Rhoades is aware of what he signed up for with this year's iteration of Penn State basketball. The Nittany Lions lost the Palestra Game to No. 19 Illinois ...

LANSING—This year, Michigan’s prison recidivism rate, or the number of people leaving prison and then returning, is the lowest on record, with nearly 80% of ex-inmates staying out of prison three ...

McClain is a friend and ally of former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan. This summer he was sentenced to two years in prison for his role in a corruption scheme. Madigan is also in a federal prison ...

Former ComEd lobbyist Michael McClain, a longtime ally and confidant of disgraced former House Speaker Michael Madigan, reported to prison Monday to serve a two-year sentence for his role in what ...