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A 24-year-old inmate attempted to hang himself using a bedsheet in his cell Friday at the Davison County Jail in Mitchell Don Radel, the jail's administrator, told The Daily Republic that the inmate was not seriously hurt, but was still examined by paramedics and taken to Avera Queen...

RAPID CITY (AP) -- Authorities say an inmate who walked away from a minimum security prison in Rapid City more than two months ago is back behind bars. State corrections officials say Jeremy Phelps was arrested Sunday in Rapid City. He is being held in the Pennington County jail. Phelps...

SIOUX FALLS (AP) -- South Dakota corrections officials say the death of an inmate at the State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls is an apparent suicide. Authorities say the state Division of Criminal Investigation is still looking into the death of 22-year-old Corey Rhodes. An autopsy...

SIOUX FALLS (AP) -- An inmate at the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls died over the weekend. Corrections officials say an autopsy is being done as standard procedure on the body of 58-year-old Louis Cunningham, who died late Saturday or early Sunday. Cunningham had...

SIOUX FALLS (AP) -- A South Dakota prison inmate has been apprehended after leaving the State Penitentiary without authorization. The state Corrections Department reports that Gregory Lewandowski left the minimum-security unit in Sioux Falls, but was caught later Saturday while...

YANKTON (AP) -- Authorities in South Dakota are searching for a state prison inmate who left his work release job in Yankton without permission. Corrections officials say 45-year-old Myron Rainbow Sr. went missing Monday night. He was serving a five-year sentence for a fourth-offense...

RAPID CITY (AP) -- A missing state prison inmate is back in custody in South Dakota. Corrections officials say 30-year-old Justin Davis returned to the minimum-security unit of the Black Hills Correctional Transition Center in Rapid City on Monday night. He had failed to return on...

SIOUX FALLS (AP) -- A work release inmate is back in custody after failing to return on time to a minimum-security unit of the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls. Corrections officials say 35-year-old Jason Lucas returned to the facility Sunday afternoon. He had left...

SIOUX FALLS (AP) -- A corrections officer at the South Dakota State Penitentiary is out of the hospital after being injured in an incident with an inmate. Department of Corrections officials tell the media that the officer was stabbed in the arm with a pen or pencil Thursday evening...

SIOUX FALLS (AP) -- A federal judge threw out a South Dakota prison inmate's claim he was permanently harmed when he was circumcised as an infant. Twenty-eight-year-old Dean Cochrun had sought $1,000 in damages from Sanford Health. U.S. District Judge Karen Schreier dismissed the...

SIOUX FALLS (AP) -- Authorities are searching for an inmate who failed to return to a halfway house in Sioux Falls. Twenty-seven-year-old Shayla Little Bear is serving four years in prison for a drug crime conviction in Minnehaha County. The Department of Corrections says she was...

SIOUX FALLS (AP) -- The Department of Corrections says a prison inmate has died. Twenty-six-year-old Miller Crazy Mule died at the South Dakota State Penitentiary Monday morning. Crazy Mule was serving a sentence of 77 years for first-degree degree rape, aggravated assault and first-degree...

SIOUX FALLS (AP) -- An autopsy is being conducted on a South Dakota prison inmate to determine how he died. The Department of Corrections says 42-year-old Lyle Furney died at a Sioux Falls hospital Monday. Furney was serving a total of seven years behind bars for indecent exposure...

SIOUX FALLS (AP) -- The South Dakota Department of Corrections says it has located an inmate who escaped from a minimum security unit of the State Penitentiary. Corrections officials say they located 31-year-old Shawn Hawley a few hours after he escaped from the Jameson Annex at...

SPRINGFIELD (AP) -- Authorities say they won't prosecute a South Dakota prison inmate who fought with another inmate who later died. Attorney General Marty Jackley and Bon Homme County State's Attorney Lisa Rothschadl say prosecutors concluded that evidence including video surveillance...