Roll of Honor
Roger C. Sorensen
Incident
Correctional Instructor Roger Sorensen drowned in the Little Missouri River in Theodore Roosevelt National Park while attempting to cross the river on horseback.
He and another correctional instructor were providing support for a group of juvenile inmates who were conducting a hike. As Instructor Sorenson attempted to cross the river, he determined it to be too deep and swift, so he tried to return to shore. His horse lunged forward and then fell into the water. Instructor Sorenson was washed approximately 400 yards downstream, where he submerged and failed to surface.
Instructor Sorensen had served with the North Dakota Youth Correctional Center for 22 years.
Survivors
He is survived by his wife, son, and three grandchildren.
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- August 2, 2026
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Tributes
22 years. You could have gone home.
Correctional Instructor Sorensen gave the North Dakota Youth Correctional Center 22 years. Still answering calls at the end.
Thank you for your service to the Mandan community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Correctional Instructor Sorensen.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Correctional Instructor Roger C. Sorensen is one of 1 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,756 officers honored here.
In ND, 15 of 61 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 24.6% of this state's fallen. That is 24.6 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
National Cause Distribution
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