In a letter, university President Sheila Gestring told professor Phillip Hook the school will not fire him. Republicans U.S.

Voices from South Dakota’s Legislature, judiciary, schools, law enforcement, mental health, tribal health and nonprofit ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - Two years after its groundbreaking, Governor Larry Rhoden toured the new women’s prison in Rapid City on Monday. The medium-security facility, located on North Creek Drive ...

ICE deported about 350,000 people during the 2025 fiscal year, which ended September 30—the highest mark in a decade, but ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - Matthew Zook, 46, of Box Elder was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison Monday after pleading ...

The state of South Dakota must do a better job of keeping prisoners from reoffending and ending up back behind bars, South ...

A private prison company announced three contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars last week that will boost the Trump administration’s capacity to hold immigrants in detention centers across ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. — Gov. Larry Rhoden announced the Correctional Rehabilitation Task Force members Tuesday - the group is tasked with presenting the best path forward for rehabilitation services in the ...

As an active, policy-driven legislator, I knew the vote for a new prison would be contentious and complex. Important and serious legislation is never easy to pass. But the difficulty of a subject ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A Beresford man – who admits killing three people by crashing a pickup – was sentenced for three counts of manslaughter. He will spend 50 years in prison. Rapid City Man ...

For years private prison companies have been an important partner for ICE as the government carries out its immigration ...

A wave of new immigration jails is drawing widespread criticism for terrible conditions and restricted access to legal ...