Laura Sullivan

South Dakota Officials Absent From Historic Meeting With Sioux Tribes

Laura Sullivan — Thu, 16 May 2013 08:24:00 +0000

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Federal officials met with South Dakota's nine Sioux tribes yesterday. They were beginning a three-day summit in Rapid City. This meeting has been a year in the making. It's an effort to address long-standing concerns over the high number of Native American children that the state places in non-Native foster homes. Families testified about alleged violations by South Dakota under the Indian Child Welfare Act.

Older Suspect Described As Controlling, Manipulative

Laura Sullivan — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 01:06:00 +0000

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Big cheers in Watertown, Massachusetts, tonight and this tweet from the Boston Police Department, captured with three exclamation points, the hunt is over, the search is done, the terror is over, and justice has won, suspect in custody. We've been gathering a lot of information all day on the bombing suspects' backgrounds.

Getting Lost In The Prison System

Laura Sullivan — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 21:04:00 +0000

Ten million people funnel in and out of our nation's jails and prisons every year. And every year, some of them get lost. Recently there have been two high-profile cases of such inmates — one who got out years too early, and one who stayed years too long. Both cases had disastrous consequences, but there's no easy fix to this problem. This story originally ran on Morning Edition on April 5.

Without Reviews, Inmates Can Get Lost In U.S. Prison System

Laura Sullivan — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:09:00 +0000

Every year 10 million people funnel in and out of America's jails and prisons. And every year some of them get lost. Recently there have been two high-profile cases of such inmates — one who got out years too early, and one who stayed years too long. Both had disastrous consequences.

In January, Evan Ebel walked out of a Colorado prison four years too early. Two months later, he allegedly rang the doorbell of Tom Clements, the head of the Colorado Department of Corrections, shot him in the chest and killed him.

South Dakota Tribes Accuse State Of Violating Indian Welfare Act

Laura Sullivan — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:27:00 +0000

For years now, council members of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe in South Dakota have watched as the state's Department of Social Services removed children from the reservation and placed many of them in white foster homes, far from tribal lands.

Tribal Coalition Report Finds South Dakota 'Willfully' Violated Child Welfare Law

Laura Sullivan — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 23:24:00 +0000

South Dakota's foster care system "systematically violated the spirit and the letter" of a law meant to protect Native American children, a coalition of tribal directors from the state's nine Sioux tribes said in a report released Thursday night.