"Education is liberation and your freedom is what I want to celebrate this morning,” said commencement speaker Bryan ...

A Northwestern College faculty member briefed the South Dakota Correctional Rehabilitation Task Force on Wednesday about ...

Green prison programs essentially provide a form of nature-based therapy to prisoners under the guidance of trained professionals. Prisoners typically engage in gardening and horticultural activities, ...

South Dakota’s Correctional Rehabilitation Task Force meets Wednesday in Sioux Falls to discuss a prison seminary program, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From left, inmate Kay Cain, Dennis (age 18 months), Correctional Officer Karen Boyer and inmate Destiny Hogan, at the ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A prison seminary program is one of the first priorities for the new head of South Dakota’s state corrections system. South Dakota Department of Corrections Secretary Nick ...

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PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — A national group has been busy looking at programs the South Dakota Department of Corrections is using ...

Advocates are frustrated by the slow progress on creating a mother-infant program for women in Wisconsin prisons; the DOC ...

The Boston College Prison Education Program (BCPEP), the state’s largest higher education program for people who are incarcerated, will expand to offer college classes to women at the Massachusetts ...

Thousands of incarcerated people in Connecticut want to pursue higher education, and funding is available, but limited space and resources have kept programs from expanding to meet demand, officials ...