The Legislative Research Council has released prison population data for April 2018. The state penitentiary in Sioux Falls had 4% more prisoners than projected in…
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…who can write a 55-page position paper on the impacts of family breakdown and drug abuse on crime and incarceration rates in South Dakota, with…
South Dakota had the second-highest juvenile incarceration rate in the country while having a juvenile violent crime arrest rate only one third of the national…
A couple weeks ago, the Legislative Research Council issued a prison/jail fiscal impact statement for New Approach South Dakota’s recreational marijuana initiative. Using the surprising…
Melissa Mentele of New Approach South Dakota reports a disappointing (for her and her supporters) change in the prison/jail fiscal statement for her organization’s recreational…
My sponsors at the Sioux Falls Democratic Forum have landed an interesting speaker for Friday’s luncheon. Addressing all interested listeners at noon at the Sioux…
Among the items the House will take up today before leaving for its final crackerbarrel weekend is Senate Bill 80, a nice little measure regulating drones. Prime…
The Legislative Research Council didn’t beat Christmas, but they did manage to post the first fifteen bills of the 2017 Session before New Year’s! The first bill in the…
On Tuesday I reported that the Legislative Research Council’s official fiscal impact statements on the four marijuana-related initiatives currently circulating showed far more costs for convictions under…