Treatment courts help reduce South Dakota's prison population

Treatment courts help reduce South Dakota's prison population

PIERRE, S.D. – As much as lawmakers debated whether South Dakota should build a new prison, they generally agreed that rehabilitation must be a vital component to ease the state's overflowing prisons and drug problems. After passage of a bill authorizing a $650 million prison to replace the current state penitentiary in Sioux Falls, Gov. Larry Rhoden set up the Correctional Rehabilitation Task Force to look for programs and best practices that k…