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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 ...
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.
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 ]
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 South Dakota Department of Corrections intends to limit the amount of phone calls that state inmates can make per day, as well as how long those calls can be, according to a Tuesday memo from ...
As of January, there were 3,690 inmates incarcerated in South Dakota prisons in total, well below the feared-for figure of 4,500. The female inmate population, however, has far surpassed the ...
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]
A 68-year-old man at the Mike Durfee State Prison in Springfield has died, according to the South Dakota Department of Corrections. ... according to the South Dakota Department of Corrections.