Two lawmakers are asking officials to consider reopening the Prairie Correctional Facility “as a permanent part of our ...

Last month state leaders announced they had reached a budget framework that called for a two-year budget of $66 billion to ...

The Faribault County Board of Commissioners took action at their June 3 meeting to continue to fund the Sentence to Serve ...

In May, state lawmakers agreed to a “phased closure” of the Stillwater state prison, which will be completed in 2029. Over ...

South Dakota is on a path to invest $2 billion into its corrections facilities in the next decade as a result of its ...

County sheriffs and attorneys ask lawmakers to fund mental health facilities as jails have a backlog of mentally ill ...

The sentence includes a 12-month concurrent sentence for violating his federal supervised release from previous convictions.

State corrections officials said the officers, including three sergeants, are considered “persons of interest” in the March 1 death of 22-year-old Messiah Nantwi, who died after an incident ...

Former North Dakota state senator Ray Holmberg, sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for child sex crimes, has been ...

Two inmates at Montana State Prison have been charged with the kidnap and attempted rape of a correctional officer in the prison's high security unit in June. Michael Spell and Bradley Crisman ...

Derek Chauvin has been moved from a Minnesota state prison where he was often held in solitary confinement to a medium-security federal prison in Arizona, where the former police officer convicted ...