December 2001

State Training School closes.

2003

Legislature approves plan to add prison beds at SDSP, MDSP and a trusty unit in the Black Hills.

Custer Youth Corrections Center renamed State Treatment and Rehabilitation (STAR) Academy, Brady Boot Camp renamed Brady Academy, Living Center A renamed Youth Challenge Center.

Temporary minimum-security unit opens in Rapid City.

Barracks unit opens at Mike Durfee State Prison.

Unit D of the Jameson Annex to the South Dakota State
Penitentiary opens.

Redfield Minimum Unit closed.

Permanent Rapid City Minimum Unit and new Parole Services office open as the Black Hills Correctional Transition Center. The building is dedicated on May 2, 2012.

Governor Dennis Daugaard signs the Public Safety Improvement Act into law.

E.X.C.E.L program for girls in Custer State Park closes.

Governor Dennis Daugaard signs the Juvenile Justice Reinvestment Initiative into law.

Minimum security units for adult male offenders renamed as Community Work Centers.

QUEST program for girls moved from Custer State Park location to main STAR Academy campus south of Custer.