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The penitentiary has suffered severe staffing shortages, and employees complained of low morale.

More could lose jobs as South Dakota prison investigation moves forward South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem met with staff at the state penitentiary on Friday, July 23, in the wake of firing two top wardens after a whistleblower report alleged poor pay and sexual harassment. She had "a very candid conversation" with the employees, she told reporters afterward, and said more firings were "possible." 7:04 pm, Jul. 23, 2021 × The South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is pictured here in a Google Maps screenshot from September 2019. (Submitted / Google) ...

Prison Officials Placed On Administrative Leave Following Investigation by South Dakota Department of CorrectionsNews Your browser does not support HTML5 audio. Here is alink to the audioinstead. Secretary of Corrections Mike Leidholt and State Penitentiary Warden Darin Young are on leave following a human resources investigation into an anonymous complaint. Governor Kristi Noem made the move on Tuesday.   “My top priority as governor is keeping South Dakotans safe, and that includes the men and women who work at the State Penitentiary and those w...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A former South Dakota prison official who was recently fired by Gov. Kristi Noem said Tuesday that she wasn't told why she was dismissed. Jennifer Dreiske, the former deputy warden at the State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls, had worked at the Department of Corrections for 19 years until Noem announced Thursday that she was being fired along with the prison's warden, Darin Young. The Department of Human Services had been investigating an anonymous complaint that alleged that supervising corrections officers regularly sexually harassed their colleagues, that employee...

Prison official fired by governor says she was not told why The Associated PressJuly 20, 2021News file photoPrison official fired by governor says she was not told why SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A former South Dakota prison official who was recently fired by Gov. Kristi Noem says she wasn’t told why she was dismissed. Jennifer Dreiske, the former deputy warden at the State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls, had worked at the Department of Corrections for 19 years until Noem announced Thursday that she was being fired along with the prison’s warden, Darin Young. The Department of Human Services ...