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South Dakota is on track to spend $2 billion on prisons in the next decade

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Two years after approving a tough-on-crime sentencing law, South Dakota is scrambling to deal with the price tag for that legislation: Housing thousands of additional inmates ...
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Costa Rica looks to El Salvador in announcing new prison and tough-on-crime reforms

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves took another step in his shift toward a tough-on-crime stance, announcing plans to build a new prison in the Central American nation modeled ...
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Report: Tough-on-crime policies could push prison construction costs as high as $2.1 billion

The Project Prison Reset group meets on April 3, 2025, at the Military Heritage Alliance in Sioux Falls. (John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight) South Dakota will need a third more prison space than it ...
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South Dakota is on track to spend $2 billion on prisons in the next decade

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Two years after ...