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Pennington County, in western South Dakota.
• South Dakota's Department of Corrections says Bissonette is an American Indian, about 5-foot-9 and about 140 pounds.
• The Rapid City unit's manager says Bissonette went missing between 8:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. Sunday. He says the unit has almost 100 inmates.
• The unit isn't locked and inmates can leave, although there are penalties for doing so without permission.
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kota's death row, rarely leaving the tiny room where he awaits execution for bludgeoning a prison guard to death with a pipe during an attempted escape.
• For Berget's immediate family, his fate is somewhat familiar. He is the second member of the clan to be sentenced to death. His older brother was convicted in 1987 of killing a man for his car. Roger Berget spent 13 years on Oklahoma's death row until his execution in 2000 at age 39.
• The Bergets are

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