Could Box Elder Be the Site for the New South Dakota Men’s Prison?

Could Box Elder be the site for the new South Dakota men’s prison?

The City of Box Elder submits a proposal to South Dakota Department of Corrections for consideration of a new men's state prison.

Prison task force is offered sites east of Box Elder, near unbuilt hog operation in Sioux Falls

Land that Sioux Falls economic development boosters had once hoped to see anchored by a $500 million slaughterhouse is now on offer as a men’s prison site. Also a prison site option, as of Tuesday: a hundred-plus acres of ranch land just east of Box Elder, the growing city near Ellsworth Air Force Base. Letters offering up the Pennington County ranchland and the land near what would have been Wholestone Foods in Sioux Falls were posted on Tuesda…

Prison task force is offered sites east of Box Elder, near unbuilt hog operation in Sioux Falls • South Dakota Searchlight

The Project Prison Reset group meets on April 3, 2025, at the Military Heritage Alliance in Sioux Falls. (John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight)Land that Sioux Falls economic development boosters had once hoped to see anchored by a $500 million slaughterhouse is now on offer as a men’s prison site. Also a prison site option, as of Tuesday: a hundred-plus acres of ranch land just east of Box Elder, the growing city near Ellsworth Air Force Base. Let…

Prison task force is offered sites east of Box Elder, new Sioux Falls location

PIERRE — Land that Sioux Falls economic development boosters had once hoped to see anchored by a $500 million slaughterhouse is now on offer as a men’s prison site.

SD Prison Task Force Is Offered Sites East Of Box Elder, Near Unbuilt Hog Operation In Sioux Falls

Land that Sioux Falls economic development boosters had once hoped to see anchored by a $500 million slaughterhouse is now on offer as a men’s prison site.