Ready for change: Is North Dakota’s criminal safety net too thin?

G.F. Herald: "The first thing Adam Martin ever stole was a bouncing balloon from a drug store in Breckenridge, Minn. He says he doesn’t know why he did it. He just did."

Job Announcement

A job announcement for a Deputy Clerk with the District Court in Bismarck has been posted.

Job Announcement

A job announcement for a Staff Attorney with the Office of Supreme Court Central Legal Staff in Bismarck has been posted.

New opinion: Aug. 7

The Supreme Court has issued an opinion on chambering the new district judgeship in the South Central Judicial District.

New U.S. District Judge Welte takes oath

New United States District Judge Peter Welte took the oath of office from Eighth Circuit Judge Ralph Erickson on Aug. 6.

Too big too fast: North Dakota’s other housing problem

G.F. Herald: "Pat Bohn has spent a long time working in corrections — long enough to climb from a rank-and-file parole and probation officer in the 1990s to a job heading North Dakota’s entire parole and probation operation today. He’s seen a lot of things change."

New opinions: Aug. 5-6

The Supreme Court has issued two new opinions.

Appeals court sides with farm equipment makers

Bismarck Tribune: "A federal appeals court has affirmed a decision by a North Dakota judge who blocked a state law meant to protect farm equipment dealers."

Then and now: The political sea changes that built North Dakota’s prisons

G.F. Herald: "In early 1995, North Dakota parole officer David Birrenkott told state leaders about a very, very busy criminal. This man had been on a decades-long crime spree across at least three states — and to hear Birrenkott tell it, there was no sign he was slowing down."

James Sayler to be new North Dakota State Penitentiary warden

KFYR News: "The North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation says James Sayler has accepted the position as the new warden for the North Dakota State Penitentiary."