Items found include handmade weapons, other items that can be fashioned into weapons and unauthorized electronics equipment.

They’re pushing for change in the South Dakota prison system. A grassroots group called South Dakotans Impacted by Incarceration will host a forum this Thursday evening at the downtown Sioux Falls public library.

Some of the items found include handmade weapons, other items that can be fashioned into or used as weapons and unauthorized electronics equipment.

Handmade weapons, unauthorized electronics equipment and other items that could be fashioned or used as weapons are what the South Dakota Department of Corrections said they’ve confiscated this week amid a lockdown of the South Dakota State Penitentiary and Jameson Annex.