Bills affecting Formerly incarcerated or family of in South Dakota — 2026 session

Permit a court to impose as a condition of probation, or parole in certain circumstances, treatment at a nonprofit entity awarded an alternative care program grant.

Except victims of human trafficking or domestic abuse from certain clemency notice requirements.

Revise a provision related to the transportation of an inmate upon discharge from a correctional facility.

Make an appropriation for providing a grant to a nonprofit that delivers programming to support offenders and correctional staff.

Allow the parole of certain inmates sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.

Allow for the expungement of records pertinent to dismissed protection order cases.

Authorize a comprehensive study of juvenile correctional and residential facilities, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency.

Revise provisions related to inmate compensation.

Establish policies and procedures for the use of solitary confinement in a juvenile facility.

Enhance the penalties for ingestion, possession with intent to deliver, and delivery of a controlled substance in a state correctional facility.

Revise and repeal provisions allowing probation for contempt of a custody or visitation decree.

Authorize the Department of Corrections to demolish the Pierre Minimum Center, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency.