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Inmates sit on their windows trying to cool off on Wednesday, July 10, 2024, at Mike Durfee State Prison in Springfield, South Dakota. "We're locked down. There was a riot.
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 ripple effects are now being felt at Mike Durfee State Prison, a medium security facility in Springfield, where inmates like Brian Anderson are transitioning from a paid instant messaging app ...
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. STAR Evergreen High School serves as the middle and high school ...
The 11 inmates connected to the March "disturbances" at the South Dakota State Penitentiary have now been indicted on the charges handed down by the South Dakota Attorney General.
Springfield is a city in Bon Homme County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 1,914 at the 2020 census. [4] As of 2023, about 1,250 of the residents were inmates at Mike Durfee State Prison. [6] Springfield was named on account of there being numerous natural springs in the area. [7]
A 68-year-old man at the Mike Durfee State Prison in Springfield has died, according to the South Dakota Department of Corrections.
It was the first execution carried out in South Dakota in over sixty years. [5] On April 12, 2011, Correctional Officer Ronald "R.J." Johnson was bludgeoned to death by two inmates who were trying to escape. Both inmates were arrested within the confines of the prison grounds. [6] They were subsequently sentenced to death. [7]