A new $13 million detention facility on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota is scheduled to open next year.

The 65,000-square-foot structure have a capacity 144 adult inmates and will employ 51 staffers. Construction is funded by a Department of Justice grant.

The existing Oglala Sioux Tribe jail has been rated as one of the most overcrowded. According to a recent report, the facility was operating at 250 percent capacity as of midyear 2002.

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