Criminal charges in multiple investigations involving inmates at South Dakota state prison facilities are pending.

The latest inmate to die marks a somber figure for South Dakota's death toll within state prisons. The South Dakota ...

Lawmakers had put back more than $600 million for prison construction before the 2025 legislative session, and the fund had swelled larger than that with interest by winter.

The violence comes less than a week after a protest over prison security and the treatment of inmates, and less than a month ...

Programs that train inmates outside prison walls have had success, though. Twelve minimum custody inmates graduated with ...

LOS ANGELES (South Dakota Searchlight) – Federal law enforcement officials forcibly removed and handcuffed U.S. Sen. Alex ...

The SD Dept. of Corrections claims to have stopped a drug smuggling ring inside of its prisons, but certain details about its ...

Now, the 24-year-old former state health employee is facing criminal charges, the South Dakota State's Attorney's Office said ...

HAYTI, S.D. — “Are we actually in space?” This story also appeared in South Dakota Searchlight The kindergartners of South Dakota’s Hamlin County are, in fact, in space. To be specific, they are on ...