As inmate numbers continue to rise in South Dakota prisons, some difficult choices will have to be made.

Governor Dennis Daugaard says there are costs to being “tough on crime”..

Daugaard says no one wants to talk about building new prison facilities…..

Daugaard says there need to be more use of diversion programs…

State prisons have reached about ninety percent of capacity or above, with daily counts right around four thousand inmates.