PIERRE, (KCCR) — A legislative interim summer study looking at incarceration and reentry into South Dakota’s prison system held it’s first meeting of the interim Tuesday. The Initial Incarceration, Reentry Analysis and Comparison of Relative States Interim Committee did just that; compared South Dakota’s rates to neighboring states. Representative Greg Jamison of Sioux Falls saw a large difference between the Dakotas in population…
Representative Jeff Bathke says that discrepancy falls back to differences in the sates’ laws…
Jamison says he’d like Committee to explore bringing some North Dakota policy south of the state line…
South Dakota’s prison population number were compared to those in Montana, North Dakota and Wyoming.
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