Project Prison Reset’s task force is set to focus on 14 options for new prison facilities in South Dakota. The group is ...

The questions have had South Dakota taxpayers’ attention for some time: where might a new prison go and what might the facility or facilities cost? Answers might ...

Republican former Gov. Dennis Daugaard made an endorsement Monday in next year’s race for governor, but not for the ticket ...

A new poll from Guidant Polling and Strategy shows South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley as a frontrunner in the ...

An incarceration summer study committee will convene for its first of three meetings on June 23, to examine SD's prison ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Two years after approving a tough-on-crime sentencing law, South Dakota is scrambling to deal with the price tag for that legislation: Housing thousands of additional inmates ...

While eight proposed sites are located in or around the Sioux Falls area, including the former Citibank campus, a $33.8 million, 69-acre property with more than 300,000-square-feet in building space.

The state got 12 pitches from landowners for possible prison sites. Four were outside of Sioux Falls, in Huron, Grant County, Aberdeen and Mitchell.

Lt. Gov. Tony Venhuizen, Sioux Falls, as its chair. Yankton Police Chief Jason Foote, who has been with the Yankton Police Department since August 1998.