PIERRE, (KCCR) — The Joint Committee on Appropriations has passed a bill to give permission for the state Department of Corrections to demolish the Pierre Minimum Center near the state Women’s Prison in Pierre. Corrections Secretary Nick Lamb says House Bill 1046 would provide 683-thousand dollars for tearing the facility down…
Lamb says reports in 2021 and most recently 2025 put the Minimum Center’s condition in the worst possible category…
Even after that dire forecast future for the building Senator John Carley wanted to know if the building could be salvaged at all…
The Joint Committee on Appropriations voted 17 to one to approve the bill with Carely making the lone no vote.
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