South Dakota
Wasko: Evaluators say South Dakota Women’s Prison in Pierre is the “most over crowded facility that any of them had seen”
Main issues with prisons and adjoining amenities had been identified to members of the South Dakota Legislature’s Authorities Operations and Audit Committee this week (Could 16, 2022).
Corrections Division Secretary Kellie Wasko says she has been at each facility within the system.
Wasko says the ladies’s jail in Pierre is particularly alarming.
Wasko says the ladies’s jail is certainly one of two vital conditions proper now.
Wasko says a guide’s report discovered many managers held a number of jobs.
Wasko says the administration construction was neither efficient nor environment friendly.
Wasko says they’re additionally doing a research of staffing ranges and assignments.
A separate research has referred to as for spending as much as $600 million to exchange and improve many of the prisons within the state system.
The committee took no motion on the studies.
(Information associate WNAX contributed to this story.)