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ture and governor's office, will work with the Pew Center on the States to analyze data over the next several months.
• "When I was a trial judge you had two choices: either put somebody on probation or send them to the pen. In many of those instances neither option is what I would have liked to have seen," Chief Supreme Court Justice David Gilbertson. "If you have other alternatives, such as a drug court, alcohol court, intensive probation, that are proven to work better at less tax dollars and gives the judge those sentencing tools in addition to the pen and traditional probation, why wouldn't you go there?"
• In addition to the state's more than 3,600 prison inmates, 7,000 people are on probation and 2,400 others are on parole, some of whom end up in prison for the

first time or back in prison, Daugaard said.
• "We need to understand what drives probationers into prison, what brings parolees back into prison and see if there's a means to reducing that number in prison and getting our costs under control and still keeping public safety foremost and holding offenders accountable," the governor said.
• Jim Seward, the governor's general counsel, said the work group will study data through October. Any possible drafting of legislation will take place in late October or November and be introduced during the next legislative session.
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