Smoke, jeering, gang showers: Media get unprecedented tour of prison
DOC Secretary Kellie Wasko leads group through bowels of penitentiary she wants to close
Disdain for South Dakota’s top prison official greeted a guided tour of journalists this week at the South Dakota State Penitentiary.
“F— Kellie Wasko, F— Kellie Wasko.”
The chants of inmates in the East Hall of “the Hill” – a moniker long attached to the state prison built in Sioux Falls more than 144 years ago – made clear the element of surprise was gone.
Court says South Dakota landlord can't cut power to Verizon
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A federal judge has granted telecom giant Verizon Wireless a temporary restraining order against a Milbank landlord who cut power to a rooftop cell site, disrupting service in parts of eastern South Dakota.
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