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Corrections official: No need to change screening tactics
By rapidcityjournal.com
Published: 07/20/2015

SIOUX FALLS | A South Dakota inmate walked away from a minimum-security unit in Sioux Falls last week and allegedly went on to commit a string of crimes across Minnesota, but state corrections officials say they still believe their system of classifying inmates is working.

Clint Eldeen, a 46-year-old inmate serving 20 years for writing bad checks, left the campus of the State Penitentiary on July 10 and allegedly committed a string of crimes in both states before being arrested in a Minneapolis suburb on Wednesday.

Denny Kaemingk, the secretary for the Department of Corrections, said that officials will have to review Eldeen's case but said the vast majority of inmates in minimum-security units stay put and don't leave and commit crimes.

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