A partial view of a state women's prison under construction in Rapid City on Sept. 23, 2025. (Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight) South Dakota incarcerates women at a higher rate than other U.S.

The South Dakota Department of Corrections aims to cut its turnover rate by 12 percentage points in the next year, in part by offering recruits a better idea of what they’re in for. The number of open ...

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 ...

PIERRE, S.D. (South Dakota News Watch) - The state of South Dakota must do a better job of keeping prisoners from reoffending and ending up back behind bars, South Dakota lawmakers said this week in ...

The U.S. prison population increased for the second consecutive year in 2023, reversing a decade-long decline. The female prison population is growing at a faster rate than the male population, rising ...

The state Department of Corrections, which has struggled to maintain workers in the past, must hire 133 staff members for the ...

Nick Lamb is South Dakota’s new secretary of corrections. He began in November and is in charge of the state’s prison ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — 30 men and women of various backgrounds will soon gather for the first time as South Dakota’s Correctional Rehabilitation Task Force: a group organized to help pave the way ...

South Dakota incarcerates women at a higher rate than other U.S. states — and countries — according to a new report from the Prison Policy Initiative. The incarceration-reform nonprofit released the ...

The nation’s prison population grew for the second consecutive year in 2023, reversing more than a decade of steady decline. A new prison population report from the federal Bureau of Justice ...