More than half of women in South Dakota prisons have drug convictions Friday, December 6, 2019

KELO News

Data from the state shows that drug convictions are the biggest reason the state’s female prison population is growing.

South Dakota’s female inmate population grew by 35% from 2013 to fiscal year 2018, according to the South Dakota Department of Correction’s (DOC)\ Fiscal Year 2018 report.

At the end of fiscal year 2018, 65% of the female inmate prison population had been convicted of drug crimes, the DOC report said. That’s 366.6 of the 564 women who were in prison in fiscal year 2018.

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