North Dakota Working on 4 ‘Mini Prisons’ to Relieve Crowding

North Dakota Corrections working on 4 ‘mini prisons’ to relieve crowding

BISMARCK — The North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is working to add as many as 300 additional beds to its overburdened prison system over the next year. “We’re literally trying to lift up about, as far as I’m concerned, four mini prisons across the state all in the same year,” Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Director Colby Braun told lawmakers at a committee meeting last month. The state prison system has had …

North Dakota working on 4 ‘mini prisons’ to relieve crowding

The North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is working to add as many as 300 additional beds to its overburdened prison system over the next year.

Task Force Picks SF For New Prison Site

The South Dakota Project Prison Reset Task Force reached its most logical, least surprising conclusion last week when it recommended two sites near Sioux Falls as potential homes for a new men’s state penitentiary.