New Penitentiary Site In Sioux Falls Gets The Green Light

Just days after South Dakota Governor Larry Rhoden officially announced that the state had entered into an agreement to purchase land in Sioux Falls for a new penitentiary, details on what made that particular location the most desirable have been released.

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The third-party consultant for the governor’s prison task force, Arrington Watkins, ranked the 148-acre Benson Road site in northeast Sioux Falls as the best prison location among the seven options under consideration.

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