Although it was shut down in the 1970s, the Eastern State Penitentiary led the way to reform in the judicial system. Today, you are welcome to tour this National Historic Landmark; the highlight ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Among the stops on a tour Wednesday of the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls was a group shower, a location which the state Department of Corrections ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Tour Guide Nick Gilette discusses some of the features of ESP, and how it was different than other prisons at the time. Tour Guide Nick Gilette ...

Wasko and state director of corrections Amber Pirraglia, who currently serves as interim warden at the penitentiary, both accompanied KELOLAND News on Wednesday’s exclusive tour. A hallway where ...

SALEM, Ore. – Michael Cooper, a 75-year-old inmate at Oregon State Penitentiary, died on February 4, 2025, at a local hospital, according to a release by the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC).

Members of the Senate Appropriations Committee Human Resource Division hold a hearing at the North Dakota State Penitentiary on Feb. 4, 2025. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor) BISMARCK ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Governor Larry Rhoden calls it “gothic” and studies have shown it’s outdated and unsafe. Photos show a view of the current state of the showers. For the first ...

A key difference Tuesday was the series of seven locked doors and layers of security that lawmakers had to pass through at the North Dakota State Penitentiary to conduct that hearing. The hearing on ...

Justice Lassiter died by suicide in March 2023, more than two years into a seven-year sentence at Northern State Prison in Newark. If he'd made parole as soon as he was eligible, he would have ...