In 2004, I arrived at Wende Correctional Facility to serve a sentence of 65 years to life for murder, assault, and criminal possession of a weapon. I was only 17 at the time of my arrest, but the ...

Legislation that is aimed at expanding prison-based education and job-training programs proven to reduce crime has been filed by Rep. Jennifer Decker, R-Waddy. House Bill 5, given the low number […] ...

PIERRE — For the past five years, conversations about prisons and how to manage them have played out as one tumultuous bout of realignment and soul-searching after another for South Dakota’s leaders.

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) -The rising County jail population isn’t a new problem, but there is a new solution, born out of Community Corrections Workers seeing that young offenders, the mostly likely to re ...