SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Dorm-style pieces of a possible project reduces the overall cost of most of the prison plans the Project Prison Reset Task Force is expected to review on Tuesday.
14 options were submitted to the task force from consultants JE Dunn and Henry Carlson Construction. The least expensive was a $622.8 million project using land owned by Sweetman Partners LLP, Sioux Falls. This design includes a 300-bed dorm-style unit and a separate 900-bed cell unit.
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The Sweetman site is 140 total acres in two parcels near North Bahnson Avenue and not far from Gage Brothers in northeastern Sioux Falls…