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

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

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

A former state Department of Social Services employee was sentenced to 13 years in prison, with six years suspended, after ...

State Rep. Greg Jamison and a trio of Sioux Falls city council members toured two new sites for a potential state men's ...

PIERRE, S.D. ( South Dakota Searchlight) — A former South Dakota Department of Social Services employee was sentenced Tuesday ...

Task force recommends $600M men's prison, down from DOC's $825M ask State House Majority Leader Scott Odenbach, R-Spearfish, made a motion to limit the total budgetary cost for the construction of ...

As the South Dakota officials consider a new Level 5 prison facility near Mitchell, many residents are voicing concerns about safety — particularly the fear that it will bring a wave of former inmates ...

The three City Councilors reached some of the same conclusions as the Mayor, but saw some positives in the way things might ...