PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — A recent lockdown at the Sioux Falls men’s prison complex resulted in correctional officials seizing many items that inmates weren’t supposed to have, including sharpened objects meant to serve as weapons as well as homemade tattoo equipment.
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State Corrections Secretary Kellie Wasko briefed the Legislature’s Government Operations and Audit Committee on Monday about contraband found during the lockdown, which lasted more than two weeks. The committee then went into closed-door session with Wasko and other state Department of Corrections officials for more than an hour.
DOC officials had notified the public on September 16 that a lockdown had begun at the State Penitentiary and two related men’s correctional facilities in Sioux Falls on September 15. On September 19, they announced that illegal items of contraband had been found. On October 3 came the announcement that the lockdown had ended on October 2.
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Photo from the South Dakota Department of Corrections.
