Last South Dakota inmate who escaped after virus struck prison arrested

August 20, 2020

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) – The last of nine female inmates who escpated from the Pierre Community Work Center after a confirmed case of COVID-19 at the facility has been arrested.

Twenty five year-old Philomene Boneshirt was arrested in Sioux Falls on Tuesday.

She was one of nine inmates who walked away from the minimum security facility on March 23, the same day the state Department of Corrections reported its first COVID-19 case at the women’s prison.

That case was the first and so far only case in a South Dakota prison.