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South Dakota is on track to spend $2 billion on prisons in the next decade

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South Dakota is on track to spend $2 billion on prisons in the next decade .

A consultant says the state will need 3,300 additional beds in coming years .

The state has one of the lowest prison populations in the U.S. South Dakota's incarceration rate of 370 per 100,000 people is an outlier in the Upper Midwest .

Former penitentiary warden Darin Young says the state needs to upgrade its prisons.

He also thinks it should spend up to $300 million on addiction and mental illness treatment.

“Until we fix the reasons why people come to prison and address that issue, the numbers are not going to stop, he says.

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