PIERRE, (KCCR) — The South Dakota Senate has passed a bill to fund a second women’s prison in Rapid City. Senate Bill 50 would allow for over two-point-four million in remaining American Rescue Plan Act funds and 20-point-eight million of general funds to refill the incarceration construction fund for the prison. Senator John Wiik says the current prison in Pierre is overflowing with inmates…
Senator Reynold Nesiba is concerned the bill doesn’t address the root cause of the high women’s prison population…
The Senate passed S-B 50 32 to two. The measure now moves to the South Dakota House.
