SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - Governor Rhoden’s Correctional Rehabilitation Task Force kicked off its work on Wednesday to assess what programs are best to implement for the future men’s penitentiary.

Task force members listened and questioned testimonies regarding what the state’s corrections system provides for inmates around the state. One initiative that started this year provides a clear direction for reentry.

The meeting followed a legislative summer study meeting focused on prison reform. One defense attorney proposed that the state look into reevaluating sentences as people become older than 60 or fulfill three-fourths of their sentence.

“And we look at a sentence, it’s one person’s opinion at one time, judging one person, so a judge makes their judgment at one time in l

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