Inmates moving to new Rapid City women’s prison, but dilapidated unit in Pierre remains in use

South Dakota’s recently opened women’s prison in Rapid City held 79 women at the end of September, the first month the state began to move them there from the women’s prison campus in Pierre.  Overcrowding in the buildings at the older women’s prison spurred the construction of the $87 million Rapid City complex. For years, […]