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Monitor investigated four incidents
By The Associated Press
Published: 05/14/2008

SOUTH DAKOTA - The state's juvenile corrections monitor said Tuesday he investigated four incidents at South Dakota's programs for juvenile offenders in Custer during the last half of 2007. John Ellis said one of the cases involved a staff member who filled a boy's hat with snow and then threw it at the boy, and another featured a volunteer from a ministerial association who told some boys they would go to hell if they followed Native American religious beliefs.

Ellis told the Legislature's Government Operations and Audit Committee that he was contacted 239 times by juveniles in the Custer programs from July 1 through Dec. 31 last year, but only four incidents required formal written reports. Read more.

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