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| State launches tribal parole pilot program |
| By siouxcityjournal.com- Gov. Dennis Daugaard |
| Published: 07/29/2014 |
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Last year, we passed historic legislation in South Dakota to reform our criminal justice system. These reforms were enacted to improve public safety, hold offenders more accountable and reduce corrections spending. When we met with stakeholders before drafting the legislation, tribal members brought a parole issue forward. Today, nearly 30 percent of the inmates in the state prison system are Native American. More than half of parolees who abscond from the state parole supervision are Native Americans. In many of these cases, the absconders are returning to one of the reservations, where they often have homes and families. Unfortunately, because the state lacks jurisdiction on the reservations, state parole agents can no longer supervise parolees who return to a reservation. Under the Public Safety Improvement Act, we established the state tribal parole pilot program to allow some Native American offenders to serve their parole supervision on the reservation. After I signed the bill into law, we met with the seven tribes that expressed interest in participating in the pilot. In April the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate was selected for the first pilot program. Read More. |
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