He told News Watch that the facility he’s concerned about is Mike Durfee State Prison on the former University of South Dakota-Springfield campus, 30 miles west of Yankton. That medium-custody ...

South Dakota’s current men’s prisons, the South Dakota State Penitentiary and Mike Durfee State Prison, both are housed in buildings constructed in 1881, 144 years ago. 1881 was eight years ...

now known as Mike Durfee State Prison. The resulting flurry of lawsuits against the state included one (Kanaly v. State by and Through Janklow, 1985) in which the South Dakota Supreme Court ...

Two Legislative District 18 lawmakers want to see improvements to South Dakota’s prison system but not through the ...

Former warden Doug Weber suggests pausing the project to consider alternatives, such as replacing Mike Durfee State Prison instead. South Dakota's four-year process to address the state's ...

He told News Watch that the facility he’s concerned about is Mike Durfee State Prison on the former University of South Dakota-Springfield campus, 30 miles west of Yankton. That medium-custody prison ...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — Legislation to build a new men’s prison in Lincoln County is on its way to the full House of Representatives at the state Capitol ... agree that South Dakota needs ...

In 1984, Gov. Bill Janklow and the Legislature moved to close the University of South Dakota campus at Springfield and convert it into a minimum-security correctional facility, now known as Mike ...

LINCOLN COUNTY, S.D. (KELO) — The future of a new men’s prison in South Dakota is up in the air. House Bill 1025 in Pierre originally appropriated money to build a men’s prison in Lincoln ...