Corrections Secretary Kellie Wasko told the South Dakota Corrections Commission that prison staff found contraband in sweat ...

The facility is intended to largely replace the existing penitentiary in Sioux Falls, parts of which date to 1881.

Corrections Secretary Kellie Wasko told the Corrections Commission that prison staff found contraband in sweat lodges ...

She also said the lodges have been rebuilt and became operational again a few weeks ago on the grounds of the South Dakota State Penitentiary. Sweat lodges are ceremonial spaces for Native Americans.

Richard William Russell will serve 30 years in the state penitentiary for possessing child porn materials. He was initially ...

A Pennington County man has been sentenced five years in prison for assaulting his girlfriend in an incidence of domestic ...

SIOUX FALLS S.D. (KELO) — A Pennington County man has been sentenced five years in prison for assaulting his girlfriend in an incidence of domestic violence, according to the Pennington County ...

A jury has convicted two inmates of assaulting two correctional officers in 2023 at the South Dakota State Penitentiary, according to a press release Friday from the South Dakota Attorney General ...