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In 1881, Richard Pettigrew lobbied for and succeeded in getting a federal appropriation to construct the jail in Sioux Falls, which can be seen from the Big Sioux River. [ 4 ] On July 11, 2007, the first post- Gregg execution took place at the penitentiary. 25-year-old Elijah Page was executed via lethal injection for the murder of Chester Poage .
The South Dakota corrections system includes the Juvenile Corrections System, its network of juvenile facilities. [3]The State Treatment and Rehabilitation Academy (STAR Academy) is located in unincorporated Custer County, 4.5 miles (7.2 km) south of Custer on U.S. Highway 385.
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of South Dakota. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 155 law enforcement agencies employing 1,636 sworn police officers, about 203 for each 100,000 residents.
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On the morning of April 12, 2011, the date of his 63rd birthday, corrections officer Ronald Johnson, who had been on the job for 23 years and was close to retiring, was working in the Pheasantland Industries, a print shop building located within the prison compound of South Dakota State Penitentiary, where inmates work on upholstery, signs, furniture, and other projects.
It opened under the name of Springfield State Prison in 1984 with women from the prison at Yankton, South Dakota. It became coed in 1985 with males being admitted. [2] It became all male in 1997 when the women were transferred to Herm Solem Public Safety Center in Pierre, South Dakota. In 1999 it was named for Mike Durfee who had been with the ...
The Sioux Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of four counties in South Dakota and one county in Minnesota, anchored by the city of Sioux Falls. The metro area is referred to locally as the Sioux Empire.