PIERRE — For the past five years, conversations about prisons and how to manage them have played out as one tumultuous bout ...

First Lady Anna Stein is emphasizing the role of prison reentry and substance abuse treatment programs in public safety, aiming to attract volunteers in the absence of additional state funding.

This spring dozens of men and women convicted of serious drug-related charges will be sent into a brand new, very structured probation program in their hometown, rather than go to prison. Prison ...