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| Prison: 'We just don't want it there' |
| By Kevin Woster - Raid City Journal |
| Published: 02/17/2009 |
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A chill wind blew through Rick Borkovec's neighborhood last week, and it had nothing to do with the weather. News that the South Dakota Department of Corrections wants to build a new minimum-security prison unit just a few blocks away settled in on the rolling subdivisions east of Elk Vale Road in an icy cloud of apprehension. Late Friday afternoon, Borkovec stopped blowing snow from the sidewalk in front of his home long enough to express the angst felt by many toward the prison plan. "It's a bad idea," he said. "With an elementary school just over the hill and a bank down there, it's just a really bad idea." That was the nearly universal chorus sung by residents of the established and developing neighborhoods a few blocks east of the intersection of Elk Vale Road and Homestead Street. There on the northwest corner on a ridge above Elk Vale, just across the street from Don’s Valley Market, is where Department of Corrections hopes to build a 256-bed prison unit in the 30,000-square foot former home of All Decked Out fencing and decking. DOC officials already have the approval of Gov. Mike Rounds. They’re now asking the South Dakota Legislature for $6 million in bonding authority to purchase the land and building, and remove the structure. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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