By curtailing state grants and low-interest loans, that market will be free to invest in states that are more financially ...

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.

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

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

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

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

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 ...

The Institute for Museum and Library Services was established in 1996 and is the largest source of federal funding for ...

South Dakota's 2024 pheasant hunting season yielded over 1.3 million harvested roosters, the highest in 13 years. An additional 380,000 pheasants were harvested within designated shooting preserves.

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

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

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