Federal inmates, including ICE detainees, taken to other jails to make space for ‘Prairie Thunder’

Federal inmates, including ICE detainees, taken to other jails to make space for ‘Prairie Thunder’

The Minnehaha County Jail in Sioux Falls on May 15, 2025. (John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight)Two federal agencies had to move 35 people from the Minnehaha County Jail in the run-up to a state-funded saturation patrol late last month in Sioux Falls. Minnehaha County officials asked federal agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Marshals Service to transport the inmates, whom the county is paid to house, to other region…