From left, South Dakota Speaker of the House Jon Hansen, R-Dell Rapids, Lt. Gov. Tony Venhuizen, and Ryan Brunner, an adviser to Gov. Larry Rhoden, participate in a Project Prison Reset meeting on April 3, 2025, at the Military Heritage Alliance in Sioux Falls. (John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight)
SIOUX FALLS — A $729,000 consultant contract will be added to the roughly $50 million South Dakota has already spent on a stalled prison construction effort.
State officials signed a contract this week to pay a consultant to repeat and update a $323,000 prison facilities report that has framed three years of discussions on the state’s correctional needs…