South Dakota Department of Corrections

There’s another leadership shakeup at the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls.

Gov. Kristi Noem has signed a pair of bills into law providing funding for two new major prison projects.

A bill to allow state circuit judges to refer kids to the Department of Corrections for repeat nonviolent offenses has crossed its last legislative hurdle.

The House Judiciary Committee heard two Senate bills that arose from a summer interim study designed to improve juvenile justice in South Dakota.

The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Senate Bill 4 aimed at give judges in South Dakota greater discretion to send juvenile repeat offenders to DOC

A bill to construct a new women's prison in Rapid City comes before the legislature this year.

More than 35 percent of state Department of Corrections employees have left during the current fiscal year.That’s according to retention numbers the department has released. Officials say that number is getting better.

The secretary of the Department of Corrections?retired Friday as the state prison system remains under?review.?? Mike?Leidholt served as the Hughes…

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