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Felons' Societal Issues Challenge Reform

Victoria Wicks

The State of South Dakota is launching a Criminal Justice Initiative to lower the prison population and the costs associated with it. This effort is inspired by studies that indicate the state will need another 224 million dollars in the next ten years if the system continues to grow at its current rate.
In this third segment of a four-part series of Dakota Digests, SDPB’s Victoria Wicks talks to experts about the challenges to finding community based services for possibly addicted, possibly mentally challenged nonviolent offenders who just can’t seem to stop committing crimes.

To hear the first two segments of this series, please click on the below links:

http://listen.sdpb.org/post/state-proposes-reduce-prison-population-treating-addicted-felons

http://listen.sdpb.org/post/return-native-traditions-answer-crime

To read the Criminal Justice Initiative Work Group Report, click here:

http://ujs.sd.gov/uploads/downloads/Public/CJI_Report_Draft_Nov_2012_FINAL_11_27_12.pdf