29-Year-Old State Inmate Dead; 9th This Year

29-year-old state inmate dead; 9th this year

SIOUX FALLS S.D. (KELO) -- A state prison offender has died. Marc Best, 29, died May 28th in a comfort care setting at the Jameson Annex to the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls where he had been housed for some time, according to a news release from the Department of Corrections. Rosebud Sioux Tribe declares state of emergency At the time of his death, Best was serving sentences for aggravated assault from Hughes County, slim…

10 injured in prison violence days after protests over security and inmate treatment

A flurry of fighting broke out again Tuesday in the maximum security building on the campus of the South Dakota State Penitentiary, according to the Department of Corrections. The violence comes less than a week after a protest over prison security and the treatment of inmates, and less than a month after the last publicly acknowledged sparring between inmates on the prison grounds in Sioux Falls. The “series of fights” took place at the same ti…