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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Although South Dakota ranked 16th in terms of the rate of incarceration based on 2020 numbers, the prison inmate population grew from 2021 to 2022, the state said in a December report. The state had a 31.6% increase in population from 2,377 in FY21 to 3,129 in FY22, according to the […]
PIERRE, S.D. — Two new prisons will be built following a presentation by Secretary of Corrections Kellie Wasko before members of the Joint Committee on Appropriations that approved two bills unanimously giving millions to the Department of Corrections. Lawmakers approved House Bill 1016 ($60 million for a new Rapid City-based women’s prison) and HB-1017 ($341 million for land, […]
BILLINGS, MT – The most recent elk population counts show a disturbing trend of Montana’s elk herd increasing to crisis levels in many areas of the state. Three quarters of Montana’s hunting districts have an elk population above the sustainable population objective set by the Montana Fish & Game Commission, with over 30 districts at […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The first numbers from the 2020 census are out and they show that America’s population growth has declined to its slowest rate since the Great Depression — a total now of just under 331.5 million. At the same time, the nation’s political center of gravity has kept shifting farther to the Republican-led […]
