South Dakota will hire more parole officers, expand monitoring to nights and weekends, and make it easier to send people on parole back to prison, Gov. Larry Rhoden announced this week.
Five parole officers will be assigned to an enhanced compliance unit, Rhoden announced in a Thursday news release, and five new officers will be hired to backfill those positions.
The Department of Corrections will also “enhance the severity of sanctions” for people on parole who commit certain misdemeanor offenses, including driving under the influence, or simple assault and weapons violations. The Board of Pardons and Paroles, meanwhile, will “process revocations” more quickly and hold revocation hearings more frequently…