PIERRE Two South Dakota Penitentiary inmates have been sentenced to additional time in prison after they had earlier been found guilty of assaulting two correctional officers at the penitentiary in 2023.
These correctional officers were violently assaulted while doing their job, said state Attorney General Marty Jackley. This type of behavior against DOC staff or other inmates will not be tolerated and will be prosecuted.
Inmates Lester M. Monroe, 49, and Kyle L. Jones, 31, were sentenced Friday in Minnehaha County Circuit Court. The two had been found guilty in November of attempted first-degree murder of a law enforcement officer and aggravated assault of a Department of Corrections employee. Jones also was found guilty of a separate count of simple assault of a Department of Corrections employee.
Monroe was sentenced to an additional 35 years in prison on his two charges. That will be served consecutively after he completes the seven years remaining on his current sentence on charges of simple assault on law enforcement out of Minnehaha County and receiving/transferring a stolen vehicle out of Bennett County.
Jones was sentenced to an additional 50 years in prison on his three charges. That will be served consecutively after he completes his current sentence on charges of first-degree manslaughter, eluding a police officer, and unauthorized ingestion of a controlled substance, all out of Minnehaha County. His initial sentence does not end until 2063.
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