Straight Outta Pierre | Campaign prisons, culture wars, and tangled cords

Straight Outta Pierre | Campaign prisons, culture wars, and tangled cords

Project Prison Reset has finally escaped the task-force stage and been paroled into reality: a $650 million East Sioux Falls monument to concrete and campaign slogans, but also a reminder of what a governor can get done when he actually decides to push. After four years of consultants cashing checks, legislators wringing their hands, and everybody pretending we’d magically fix a 144-year-old prison with duct tape and baling twine, the Legislatur…