As South Dakota prepares for the next steps in addressing its prison issue, it’s clear that the ultimate answer must include much more than building a new facility.

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 ...

A former state prison employee has been sentenced to 90 days in prison after pleading guilty to sexual contact with an inmate. The 36-year-old woman, a former employee of the Mike Durfee State ...

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 ...