South Dakota Supreme Court rules against neighbors in now-moot prison site dispute

The South Dakota Supreme Court handed a legal loss July 10 to opponents of a Lincoln County prison site lawmakers have already abandoned.

In a unanimous ruling, the justices decided that Lincoln County residents don’t have the right to force the state to adhere to local zoning ordinances.

Representatives from the nonprofit organization Neighbors Opposed to Prison Expansion, or NOPE, sought to force …