Project Prison Reset Task Force Shares Consultant Report
PIERRE, S.D. – Today, the Project Prison Reset task force shared the completed consultant report by Arrington Watkins. You can find the consultant report here.
“This new third-party report confirms what our task force concluded: that the state penitentiary in Sioux Falls has reached the end of its useful life,” said Lt. Governor Tony Venhuizen, who chairs the task force. “The report also found that our system is overcrowded and requires a new facility and, absent changes in law, we can expect this problem to get even worse over time.”
Arrington Watkins’ report specifically analyzed the state of our current system, including the South Dakota State Penitentiary, the Jameson Prison Annex, and the Sioux Falls Minimum Center. The consultant will evaluate potential sites for a new prison in the second phase.
The task force was announced by Governor Larry Rhoden in February. You can find information about past Project Prison Reset meetings here.
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Quickly becoming a high tax and high incarceration state. There’s got to be cheaper options than what the so called out-of-state consultants are recommending. Always easy to spend tax dollars.
1. How many companies in the US build prisons?
2. How many replied to the RFP?
2. How much will it cost in interest if we don’t do it now with mostly non-tax dollars?
We paid a consulting company almost $1 million dollars to tell us what we all ready knew. I thought these folks called themselves conservatives.
Consultants are the worst. Big, big dollars to let some Ivy Leaguer tell you how much to spend on something. But it’s only a million so what the heck. I’m not so sure this ploy wasn’t to get the hard righters off the dime for the $825 million plan
The 2024 election and the 2025 session will go down in history as the most anti-development legislature ever.
So many stupid legislators and so many disliked legislators
And then you have The Tobes Cult.
They wasted a lot of time on issues that have no business in the legislature.
1. How many companies in the US build prisons?
2. How many replied to the RFP?
2. How much will it cost in interest if we don’t do it now with mostly non-tax dollars?