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Studying The State's Controlled Substances Laws

SDPB

In The Moment ... October 25, 2019 Show 687 Hour 1

A panel of South Dakota lawmakers is studying the state's controlled substances laws and an almost at capacity prison system. The group has met three times and they're close to issuing recommendations to the legislature as a whole.

SDPB's Lee Strubinger has been following the legislative summer study on offenses regarding controlled substances. He joins In The Moment from the Black Hills Surgical Hospital Studio in Rapid City.

Chris is a producer for In the Moment.
Lee Strubinger is SDPB’s Rapid City-based politics and public policy reporter. Lee is a two-time national Edward R. Murrow Award winning reporter. He holds a master’s in public affairs reporting from the University of Illinois-Springfield.