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| Pressure On The Prisons |
| By keloland.com - Ben Dunsmoor |
| Published: 01/17/2013 |
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PIERRE, SD - If South Dakota doesn't do something about its growing inmate population, the state would have to spend more than $200 million on new prison s in the next decade. That's why alternatives for locking up offenders are a priority during this year's legislative session. If you go behind the bars of South Dakota's women's prison you'll find out why the state is looking into criminal justice reform. "We are in the top five in the country for incarceration of females in South Dakota," South Dakota Department of Corrections Secretary Denny Kaemingk said. South Dakota locks up four times as many women as Minnesota and right now there are more than 400 women serving their sentences behind bars. Thirty years ago there was only an average of 40 women in prison in the state. Kaemingk says the women's prison is just one area where they are feeling pressure from a growing inmate population. Read More. |
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