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Vehicles fill the parking lot of South Dakota’s Rapid City Correctional Facility, a women’s prison, on Oct. 1, 2026. The complex includes multiple additional structures behind the main building. (Photo by Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight)
By John Hult
South Dakota’s recently opened women’s prison in Rapid City held 79 women at the end of September, the first month the state began to move them there from the women’s prison campus in Pierre.
Overcrowding in the buildings at the older women’s prison spurred the construction of the $87 million Rapid City complex.
COMMENTARY
Monae Johnson waits to welcome potential voters at an October 2022 meet-and-great in a Rapid City coffee shop, during her campaign to become South Dakota’s secretary of state. (Photo by Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight)
By Rick Snedeker
Since South Dakota’s Republican lame-duck Secretary of State Monae Johnson oddly endorsed the Democrat campaigning to replace her, voters reasonably might wonder: Is she for real?
FROM STATES NEWSROOM
Disability rights advocates rally at the Missouri State Capitol to protest the state’s participation in a lawsuit that began as an effort to block protections for transgender people but ended in a rollback of protections for people with disabilities. Missouri eventually withdrew from the suit, but five Republican-led states did not. (Photo by Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent)
By Anna Claire Vollers
A court battle that began when conservative-led states sued to block protections for transgender people has ended in a rollback of protections for people with disabilities — a result disability advocates have feared for months.
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