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Senate rejects bill to form expanded incarceration task force after heated debate
Summary
Senate Bill 124, to create a broad incarceration task force with named criminal‑justice stakeholders, failed on final passage by 15 yeas to 20 nays.
Senate Bill 124, a bill to create an incarceration task force to study incarceration capacity, alternative sites and approaches to recidivism, failed on a final roll-call vote in the South Dakota Senate. The final tally was 15 yeas and 20 nays.
Senator Jensen, the bill’s prime sponsor, proposed an amended version (124C) that specified membership for the task force — including law enforcement, a prosecutor, defense counsel, a judge, probation and parole representatives, corrections staff, a former incarcerated person, mental…
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