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Smoke, jeering, gang showers: Media get unprecedented tour of prison

Disdain for South Dakota’s top prison official greeted a guided tour of journalists this week at the South Dakota State Penitentiary.“F— Kellie Wasko, F— Kellie Wasko.”The chants of inmates in the East Hall of “the Hill” – a moniker long attached to the state prison built in Sioux Falls more than 144 years ago – made clear the element of surprise was gone.
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thedakotascout.com broke the news in on Friday, July 11, 2025.
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