A Pennington County man has been sentenced five years in prison for assaulting his girlfriend in an incidence of domestic ...

First Alert Investigator Beth Warden is attending a meeting on state correctional facilities on Tuesday and has live updates.

Teresa Bittinger is no longer warden of the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls. Department of Corrections (DOC) employees got an email late Tuesday evening from Director of Prisons ...

The city of Lennox agreed Tuesday to accept wastewater from a proposed state men’s prison in rural Lincoln County, the same ...

South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley is charging 11 inmates with criminal charges related to the late March "disturbances" at the South Dakota State Penitentiary, according to a press release.

Two inmates at the South Dakota State Penitentiary have been found guilty of assaulting two correctional officers. Inmates ...

SIOUX FALLS — The South Dakota State Penitentiary is operating without its head after Warden Teresa Bittinger was removed from her position this week. In a memo sent to Department of Corrections ...

John Basas Lorens, 65, asked detectives 'Is that bad?' when it came to videos he sent others, according to an affidavit ...

The South Dakota Department of Corrections says Men’s State Prison offender Richard Woodraska has died as the result of an ...

SIOUX FALLS S.D. (KELO) — A nationwide search is on for a new warden for the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls. In an email to Department of Corrections staff, the director of ...