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Company to pay $1.33M for death of Canton worker
• CANTON, S.D. (AP) -- A company has agreed to pay more than $1.33 million in penalties and fines for the death of a Canton worker.
• Forty-two-year-old Larry Kinzer, of Sioux Falls, was killed in November 2011 at Adams Thermal Systems Inc., which makes cooling systems for vehicle engines.
• The U.S. Attorney's Office and U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration say Adams will pay Kinzer's wife $450,000.
• Also part of the agreement is a criminal fine of $450,000 and OSHA fine of $435,000 for regulatory violations that caused the fatality and additional violations found during inspections.
• OSHA's investigation found Kinzer was crushed in a machine used to make radiator cores. The agency says managers told workers to bypass the manufacturer's barrier guard in order to adjust the machine to keep it running.
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Nearly three-quarters of SD parolees earn time off
CHET BROKAW, Associated Press
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Nearly three-quarters of South Dakota's parolees earned time off their sentences in the first month of a new program that's part of an extensive overhaul of the state's criminal justice system, a state official said Thursday.
• Laurie Feiler, deputy secretary of state Corrections Department, said 1,975 of the state's 2,794 parolees, or 71 percent, earned time off their sentences in July. Parolees essentially can shorten their sentences by a month for every month they behave themselves, and they earned more than 70,000 days off their sentences in the first month after the new law took effect July 1, she said.
• The program is a great incentive for people paroled from the state prison system to behave, Feiler said.
• "We got it off and rolling, and we're very optimistic about it," Feiler told a special panel of legislators, judges, state officials and others that will oversee implementation of a new law. The law seeks to cut prison costs by treating more nonviolent offenders through intensive probation, parole and other programs outside prison walls. Many of the programs have not yet started, but officials on Thursday outlined their efforts to put those programs together.
• Officials have said if nothing is done to curb a rapid increase in adult inmates, the state would have to spend an estimated $212 million to build and operate a new men's prison and new women's prison in the next decade. The new programs will (Continued on page 18)
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