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4 Feb 2024, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
No one whom NPR spoke with whose work required them to witness executions in Virginia, Nevada, Florida, California, Ohio, South Carolina, Arizona, Nebraska, Texas, Alabama, Oregon, South Dakota or Indiana expressed support for the death penalty afterward. [read post]
6 May 2022, 2:25 pm by ACLU
My legal career began in 1971 as a Legal Aid attorney on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where I worked for nearly four years. [read post]
19 May 2020, 8:48 am by Ruth Anna Buffalo
The 30-year-old member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe in South Dakota was the first federally incarcerated woman to die from COVID-19. [read post]
21 Jul 2017, 6:55 am
This post examines a recent opinion from the Supreme Court of South Dakota: State v. [read post]
5 Jun 2017, 12:13 pm
This post examines a recent opinion from the Supreme Court of South Dakota: State v. [read post]
16 Oct 2012, 8:32 am by Steve Hall
Eric Robert, 50, received lethal injection and was pronounced dead at the state penitentiary in Sioux Falls. [read post]
7 Sep 2012, 11:49 am by Dan Gauss
 Faced with an incarceration rate twice as high as in neighboring states North Dakota and Minnesota, South Dakota has convened a task force that will examine data and search for solutions to reduce the state’s prison population. [read post]
12 Jul 2012, 7:30 am by W.F. Casey Ebsary, Jr.
North Dakota had done so but retreated from this unwise course in 1989 by abandoning a strict liability regime and amending its drug laws to include the culpability requirement of “willfully” as an element of the offense. [read post]
18 Apr 2012, 9:32 am by Steve Hall
Berget was sentenced to death after he and two other inmates were convicted of killing prison guard Ron Johnson during an escape attempt last year at the South Dakota State Penitentiary. [read post]
21 Jul 2011, 9:01 am by Associated Press
Forty-one-year-old James McVay waived his right to an extradition hearing in Wisconsin’s Dane County on Tuesday and was transported to the South Dakota State Penitentiary on Wednesday. [...] [read post]
14 Apr 2011, 9:04 am by CJLF Staff
Two South Dakota Inmates Kill Prison Guard for Uniform in Attempt to Escape:  AP writer Dirk Lammers reports two South Dakota inmates attacked correctional officer Ronald Johnson, 63, wrapped his head in plastic shrink wrap and left him to die before using his uniform to sneak past security in a failed escape attempt Tuesday. [read post]
7 Apr 2011, 8:47 am by Steve Hall
Three months later, in selling to South Dakota, he jacked up the price to $10.00 a vial. [read post]
18 Jan 2011, 1:18 pm by McNabb Associates, P.C.
In 1988, he was sentenced by a U.S. court to 18 years in prison for a series of burglaries, but walked away from the minimum security South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls six years later, and had been sought ever since. [read post]
13 May 2010, 7:17 am by Steve Hall
Galloway, Varga’s former cell mate at the South Dakota State Penitentiary in the mid 1990s, is scheduled for execution today. [read post]
15 Nov 2009, 11:05 pm
Immediately after his conviction, federal marshals took Rubashkin to the South Dakota State Penitentiary where he was held overnight. [read post]
20 Oct 2009, 1:09 pm
The charge is a Class-2 felony, punishable by a maximum of 25 years in the South Dakota State Penitentiary and a $50,000 fine, or both. [read post]
12 Sep 2009, 1:45 pm
The case involved claims by a Jewish inmate in the South Dakota State Penitentiary who wanted time and facilities to study Hebrew and who wanted to eat his meals outside in a sukkah during the Jewish holiday of Sukkkot.In an amusing confusion of Hebrew terms, in denying plaintiff's request for an injunction giving him additional group study time to learn Hebrew, the court said: "his religion considers learning Hebrew to be a 'mikvah,' or… [read post]
16 Apr 2009, 9:52 pm
It has been introduced in legislatures all over the nation, and has passed in both chambers in Oklahoma and one in South Dakota. [read post]
7 Dec 2007, 7:01 am
The North Dakota Cerebral Palsy Resource Guide contains resources within the State of North Dakota. [read post]