Pen Pen: North Dakota Reforms Can Make Prison A Safer Place to Live and Work – Dakota Free Press

By Cory Allen Heidelberger on 2021-07-29
Is there something about living in South Dakota that helps me think like a prisoner?
I hit “Publish” on my last article, on North Dakota’s Norway-inspired prison reforms, went out to get my mail, and found this letter from Samuel Lint, inmate #16334 at the South Dakota State Penitentiary, dated July 20, postmarked July 27.
Samuel Lint, return address, received by DFP 2021.07.29.
Mr. Lint is serving a life sentence in the Pen. He has written before to share his observations on prison life and how South Dakota might improve its correctional system. He writes again this month in response to the firing of his warden and deputy warden and offers the same suggestion I just blogged: to make inmates and prison staff safer and healthier, South Dakota should follow North Dakota’s example in pivoting its prisons from punishment to rehabilitation:

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