Bill To Support Improvements To Women’s Prison Medical Facilities Approved By Senate Appropriators

Bill To Support Improvements To Women’s Prison Medical Facilities Approved By Senate Appropriators

PIERRE — A bill to fund improvements to medical facility infrastructure at the state Women’s Prison in Pierre will be heard on the Senate floor Wednesday. Brittni Skipper with the Department of Corrections says the improvements will still be needed even if some inmates are transfer out of Pierre…

Much like a pending bill to support a massive renovation of the state Health Lab, the Women’s prison medical expansion would be 100-percent funding through the American Rescue Plan Capital Projects fund which Senator Reynold Nesiba says will give it extra vetting…

Senate appropriators passed the bill to the floor on an eight-zero vote.