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A comparison with North Dakota caused some lawmakers on South Dakota’s legislative budget committee to say Tuesday that changes are needed to curb high incarceration numbers.
South Dakota incarcerates twice as many people as North Dakota, legislators told
The South Dakota Department of Corrections provided updated information on their plans for two new prisons and the staffing situation at the penitentiary in Sioux Falls.
Details and further information have been added throughout. PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — The price that South Dakota state government will pay for construction of a new men’s prison south of Sioux Falls hasn’t yet been determined, according to state Department of Corrections officials. Corrections Secretary Kellie Wasko and her department’s finance director Brittni Skipper met […]
There are 241 individuals serving time in South Dakota prisons whose highest crime is ingestion of a controlled substance. South Dakota is the only state in the nation with felony level ingestion.