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South Dakota correctional populations of Census 2010 vintage

We recommend using these addresses only for guidance in identifying prison populations in the Census data and warn against assuming that the prisons were in fact counted at that particular location.

Facility Name Prisoners Type Address City Zip County Survey Date
Beadle County Regional Corrections Center 25 Local 455 4th Street, S.W. Huron 57350 3/31/2006
Bon Homme County Jail 7 Local 300 West 18th Avenue Tyndall 57066 3/31/2006
Brookings County Jail 35 Local 315 7th Avenue Brookings 57006 3/31/2006
Brown County Jail 43 Local 22 Court St. Aberdeen 57402 3/31/2006
Brule County Jail 7 Local 300 South Courtland Chamberlain 57325 3/31/2006
Charles Mix County Jail 38 Local 501 J Street Lake Andes 57356 3/31/2006
Clay County Jail 14 Local 15 Washington Street Vermillion 57069 3/31/2006
Codington County Detention Center 79 Local 14 1st Avenue, S.E. Watertown 57201 3/31/2006
Community Alcohol Drug Ctr/Stepping Stone 30 Private 901 South Miller Mitchell 57301 Davison County 12/30/2005
Community Alternatives Of The Black Hills 56 Private P.O. Box 2273 Rapid 57701 Pennington County 12/30/2005
Corson County Jail 2 Local 111 2nd Street Mcintosh 57641-0136 3/31/2006
Davison County Jail 43 Local 1015 South Miller Avenue Mitchell 57301 3/31/2006
Day County Jail 8 Local 710 W. 2nd Street Webster 57274 3/31/2006
Dewey County Jail 1 Local 702 C Street Timber Lake 57656-0097 3/31/2006
Edmunds County Jail 1 Local 210 2nd Avenue Ipswich 57451 3/31/2006
Fall River County Jail 21 Local 906 N. River St. Hot Springs 57747 3/31/2006
Faulk County Jail 5 Local 924 Lafoon Ave. Faulkton 57438 3/31/2006
FPC Yankton 803 Federal 1016 Douglas Avenue Yankton 57078 Yankton County 12/30/2005
Glory House Of Sioux Falls 44 Private 4000 S West Avenue Sioux Falls 57109 Minnehaha 12/30/2005
Grant County Milbank Detention Center 2 Local 222 East 5th Avenue Milbank 57252 3/31/2006
Hughes County Jail 48 Local 119 North Euclid Pierre 57501 3/31/2006
Lake County Jail 9 Local 219 N.E. 1st Madison 57042 3/31/2006
Lawrence County Jail 53 Local 78-80 Sherman Street Deadwood 57732 3/31/2006
Marshall County Jail 5 Local 911 Vander Horck Ave. Britton 57430 3/31/2006
Meade County Jail 70 Local 1400 Main Street Sturgis 57785 3/31/2006
Mike Durfee State Prison & Trusty Unit 1,485 State 1412 Wood Street Springfield 57062-0322 Bon Homme County 12/30/2005
Minnehaha County 560 Local 500 N Minnesota Ave Sioux Falls 57104 3/31/2006
Pennington County Jail 376 Local 603 2nd Street Rapid City 57701 3/31/2006
Roberts County Jail 14 Local 412 3nd Avenue East Sisseton 57262 3/31/2006
South Dakota State Penitentiary 1,512 State P.O. Box 5911 Sioux Falls 57117-5911 Minnehaha County 12/30/2005
South Dakota Women's Prison 324 State 3200 East Highway 34 Pierre 57501-5070 Hughes County 12/30/2005
Union County Jail 24 Local 209 East Main Street Elk Point 57025 3/31/2006
Walworth County Jail 19 Local 4308 4th Avenue Selby 57472 3/31/2006
Winner City Jail 80 Local 217 E. 3rd St. Winner 57580 3/31/2006
Yankton City Jail 42 Local 410 Walnut Street Yankton 57078 3/31/2006
Yankton FPC 838 Federal 4/1/2010

This table draws data from three sources:

  • Federal prisons on April 1, 2010: The Prison Policy Initiative downloaded the weekly population list from the Bureau of Prisons for that date on April 4, 2010.
  • State and federal correctional facilities on December 30, 2005 were extracted from: United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Census of State and Federal Adult Correctional Facilities, 2005 [Computer file]. ICPSR24642-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2010-10-05. doi:10.3886/ICPSR24642
  • Local jails on March 31, 2006 was extracted from: United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Census of Jail Facilities, 2006 [Computer file]. ICPSR26602-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2010-01-26. doi:10.3886/ICPSR26602

Military prisons and state halfway houses are not included in the above table as we were not able to locate an appropriate national database of these types of facilities. Juvenile facilities are not included in the above because the Census Bureau counts these facilities separately from the adult correctional institutions that are the focus of our work. Where necessary, state-specific sources will be more useful for identifying juvenile facilities.

We do, however, have a list (without population information) of all federal halfway houses as of March 2010.

For state, federal and local prisons built or expanded in the latter half of the decade, you may find this list of New and Expanded Prisons Since 2000 helpful as well.

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