SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Project Prison Reset, the group of lawmakers and other leaders taking a new look at how and where to build a new men’s prison in South Dakota, has met for the first time. Wednesday, the task force visited a rural section of Lincoln County between Canton and Harrisburg where the state was planning to put a new men’s prison until a bill to appropriate money to build the facility failed in February.
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The group also toured the current state penitentiary in Sioux Falls Wednesday, and Minnehaha County State’s Attorney Daniel Haggar was not mincing words on what he saw.
“I think everyone would agree, walking through those facilities this morning, we have a lot of people in there,” said Haggar, who is on the task force. “We have a lot of people packed in there. It’s not safe.”
Republican state Sen. Ernie Otten, who’s also on the task force, lives around 10 miles from the Lincoln County site…