SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) - The path towards a new men's prison in South Dakota is moving forward. Friday, Governor Larry Rhoden announced the State of South Dakota entered an agreement that grants the State the option of purchasing land at the proposed Benson road site in northeast Sioux Falls.

The land of approximately 148 acres between Gage Brothers Concrete and the Sioux Falls Area Humane Society was one of two options the Project Prison Reset Task Force recommended the state to purchase for a new men's prison.

"The advantage of this specific site is that it's less money than the other site," Rep. Greg Jamison, a task force member, said. "The other site is really keyed up and ready for industrial development for those people who want frontage on the interstate. This is kind of hidden,

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