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2002

December

12-31 Custer Youth Corrections Center Runaway Apprehended

12-30 Search Underway for Custer Youth Corrections Center Runaway

November

11-18 Prison Health Care Services Earn Continued Accreditation

11-7 Interstate Compact Council Mtg

October

10-28 State Prison Inmate Dies

10-14 Trusty Found Dead in Tyndall Home

10-12 State Prison Inmate Dies

September

9-19 West Farm Program Changing Hands

9-10 Escapee In Custody

August

8-28 Inmates Deployed to Wall Canyon Fire

8-26 Search Continues for Escaped Prison Trusty

8-26 State Prison Inmate Dies

8-21 Teen Back In Custody

8-20 Search under way for Teen Escapee

8-20 Autopsy Shows State Prison Inmate Died of Heart Failure

8-19 State Prison Inmate Dies

8-19 Governor Janklow Deploys Inmate Crews to Fight Black Hills Fire

8-12 Inmates Deployed to Herrick for Storm CleanUp Efforts

8-9 Inmates Clean Up Deadwood After Storm

8-5 State Prison Inmate Dies

8-2 Inmate Hospitalized Following Penitentiary Assault

8-1 Prison Trusty Killed In Storm Cleanup Accident Identified

July

7-29 Sinai Storm Cleanup

7-25 Janklow Utilizing Inmates to Help Salem Residents CleanUp Following Storm

7-23 Inmate Crew Helping Fight Red Point Fire

7-22 Inmates Assisting In CleanUp Following Black Hills Storm

7-17 Inmates Assist Fight Little Elk Creek Fire

7-16 State Awarded $1.9 Million To Reintegrate Juvenile Offenders Back Into Communities

7-15 Inmate Back In Custody Following Escape

7-8 Preliminary Autopsy on Inmate Death Completed

7-8 Search under way for LCB Runaway

7-7 State Prison Inmate Dies

7-1 Three New Appointments Made to Board of Pardons and Paroles

7-1 Inmates Help Fight Deadwood Fire

June

6-24 Barnard - FT Pierre Cleanups

6-14 Corrections Commission Meeting Scheduled

6-11 Penitentiary Flags Lowered at Half Staff in Honor of Deceased Officer

6-10 Mike Durfee State Prison Wins State Award

6-7 School, Law Enforcement Leaders Invited to Tour Juvenile Corrections Programs

May

5-21 Yankton Trusty Unit WalkAway Back In Custody

5-20 South Dakota Girl Dies at Colorado Treatment Center

5-9 Pen Staff Awarded By SF Optimist Club

5-6 Bicycles Delivered to Northern Black Hills for Underprivileged Children

5-6 Janklow Honors Correctional Workers

5-1 Staff, Volunteers Recognized for Work with Corrections Department

April

4-4 State Prison Inmate Dies

4-4 Search under way BC Runaways

4-3 Inmates called to assist with grass fire near Aberdeen

March

3-18 Inmate Back In Custody

3-13 Yankton Trusty Unit Honored for Community Work

February

2-28 Laurenze-Bogue Named to Parole Board

2-27 State Prison Inmate Dies

2-6 State Prison Inmate Dies

January

1-14 State Senate Approves Two Appointments to Board of Pardons and Paroles