Project Prison Reset Task Force hears about Mitchell as potential prison site

S.D. corrections work group formally backs need for new prison

SPRINGFIELD — South Dakota needs a new prison.

Project Prison Reset Task Force hears about Mitchell as potential prison site

SPRINGFIELD, S.D. — South Dakota is considering building a new prison. One question is where to put it. Could Mitchell be the answer to that question? That was the topic Tuesday afternoon in Springfield, where the Project Prison Reset Task Force met to discuss a number of potential candidate sites, including Mitchell, for a prison that was at one time set to be constructed in Lincoln County before public pushback and legislative funding issues d…

After his speech before the Legislative Assembly, Governor Alfredo Cornejo gave a press conference accompanied by the ministers of his Cabinet, in which he expanded one of the most resonant announcements of the day: the construction of a new prison in Mendoza, intended exclusively to accommodate persons convicted of minor crimes, such as theft or simple theft. Cornejo said that in the next few days the technical details of the project and the to…

South Dakota's 144-year-old prison again deemed unfit, replacement recommended

SPRINGFIELD — South Dakota’s state penitentiary has to go.That’s the takeaway following seven hours of proceedings Tuesday by Gov. Larry Rhoden’s Project Prison Reset Task Force, which reached consensus that the 144-year-old prison complex in Sioux Falls — known as “The Hill” — no longer meets the state’s correctional needs.“As you’ve seen if you walk through it, we can’t do nothing. We have to do something,” said Attorney General Marty Jackley,…