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South Dakota Lawmakers Face Opposition Over Proposed New Women’s Prison

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Lawmakers in South Dakota have proposed a new women’s prison, estimated to cost $60 million, in response to the state’s current overcrowding issue, Lee Strubinger reports for the SDPB. The women’s prison in Pierre, South Dakota, currently has a population of 316 inmates in a facility built to hold just over 200.

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ALPS In Brief – Episode 64: Project Destination

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I’m on the road today and out in South Dakota at a convention and have had the pleasure to meet Tamara Nash. And she is the Director of Experiential Learning and a lecturer at the University of South Dakota School of Law. And I took the LSAT and enrolled at the University of South Dakota. Absolutely.

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Abortion Battle Enters Second Phase

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Governor Kay Ivey announced Friday that Alabama would immediately ask the court to strike down “any legal barriers to enforcing” a 2019 law, HB314, that makes performing an abortion a felony. Performing an abortion or attempted abortion are felony offenses. Performing an abortion is a felony offense. Law : Arkansas SB149 2019.

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October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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South Dakota Federal Court Granted Preliminary Injunction Against Enforcement of Laws Targeting Pipeline Protesters. The court also temporarily enjoined two felony riot statutes because they went “far beyond” the State’s “appropriate interest” in criminalizing participation in a riot with acts of force or violence. Jewell , No.

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