Ex-Corrections officer at women's prison bound over on sex charges

Joshua Lee, 22, of Wyandotte is accused of engaging in "multiple sexual acts with several prisoners" when he worked at the ...
DRGNews

Fewer job vacancies in South Dakota Department of Corrections as new women’s prison prepares to open in Rapid City

Rep. Mike Derby, a Republican from Rapid City who co-chairs the Joint Committee on Appropriations, told News Watch that ...
South Dakota News Watch

Fewer job vacancies in DOC as new women's prison prepares to open

New Corrections report shows reduced job openings since pay increase took effect as state agency hires 133 for new Rapid City ...
Yahoo

‘Exodus,’ Oscar Contender About Two Women Released From Long Prison Terms, Asks “What Comes After Freedom?”

The women — Trinity Copeland and Assia Serrano – were both incarcerated in New York state for more than 20 years between them for crimes indelibly linked to abuse they had suffered; in Trinity’s case ...
The Marshall Project

Women Are Sent to This Federal Prison for Dialysis. They Say It’s Killing Them.

Evangelina Perez lost count of the number of times her mother, Martha Perez, called her from federal prison, gasping for breath because she had missed dialysis treatments for her kidney failure. At 59 ...
Governing

South Dakota Banks on New Women’s Prison to Curb World-Leading Incarceration Rate

No other place in the world incarcerates women at a higher rate than South Dakota, according to research by a prison-focused nonprofit, and the construction of a second women’s prison in the state ...