Ghosts of abandoned college haunt South Dakota prison town
Bon Homme County community worries history could repeat as state looks at corrections overhaul
SPRINGFIELD – “Don’t let them poach it,” a passerby told Bob Dooley Tuesday, as the former Mike Durfee State Prison warden stepped outside the Springfield Community Center for a smoke.
The retired state official had just finished speaking to Gov. Larry Rhoden’s Project Prison Reset Task Force — the panel of legislators, prosecutors and law enforcement leaders tasked with charting the future of corrections in South Dakota.
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