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The South Dakota Department of Corrections is the agency that operates state prisons in the
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. It has its headquarters in
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Adult prisons

* Mike Durfee State Prison * South Dakota State Penitentiary and its Jameson Annex * South Dakota Women's Prison (inmate capacity 452) * Rapid City Trustee Unit * Yankton Trustee Unit


Juvenile corrections

The South Dakota corrections system includes the Juvenile Corrections System, its network of juvenile facilities. The State Treatment and Rehabilitation Academy (STAR Academy) is located in
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Custer County, south of
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on U.S. Highway 385. STAR Evergreen High School serves as the middle and high school for delinquent youth. The STAR campus includes several units. The STAR Admissions Unit processes new arrivals. The Youth Challenge Center and the Patrick H. Brady Academy serve young men. The QUEST and Excel programs serve young women. The West Farm in unincorporated Minnehaha County, near
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, serves as the juvenile transitional care facility for boys who are about to go back into their communities. STAR Academy and Patrick H Brady Academy closed in April 2016. All juveniles are housed in private placements supervised by Juvenile Community Corrections staff.


Prison gang activity

Over the ten years leading to 2010,
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staff identified approximately 150 different gangs in South Dakota's state prisons. Of those, eight are currently active at the South Dakota State Penitentiary in
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. Most have racial allegiances, like the Gangster Disciples, an African American street gang; and the
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, a Hispanic street gang. Warden Doug Weber told
KSFY-TV KSFY-TV (channel 13) is a television station in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States, affiliated with ABC and The CW Plus. It is owned by Gray Television alongside dual NBC/Fox affiliate KDLT-TV (channel 46). Both stations share studios in Co ...
that two gangs actually formed at the South Dakota State Penitentiary: the Family Brotherhood is an Aryan gang and the Red Brotherhood is a Native American gang.Drew Sandholm
"Inside Prison Gangs"
, ABC News affiliate KSFY-TV. January 14, 2009. Accessed 12 February 2010.


See also

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List of law enforcement agencies in South Dakota This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of South Dakota. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 ''Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies,'' the state had 155 law enforcement agencies employing 1,636 sw ...
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List of United States state correction agencies This is a list of corrections agencies in the states of the United States. State adult prison agencies * Alabama Department of Corrections * Alaska Department of Corrections * Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry * Ark ...
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List of U.S. state prisons This is a list of U.S. state prisons (2010) (not including federal prisons or county jails in the United States or prisons in U.S. territories): * Alabama * Alaska * Arizona * Arkansas * California * Colorado * Connecticut * Delaware * Flor ...


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South Dakota Department of Corrections
{{DEFAULTSORT:South Dakota Department Of Corrections State law enforcement agencies of South Dakota Prisons in South Dakota Lists of United States state prisons Juvenile detention centers in the United States State corrections departments of the United States 1989 establishments in South Dakota Government agencies established in 1989