PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) -- The handshake of thanks on Tuesday night between the first-year governor and the first-year lawmaker, as they waited for the legislation authorizing a new men's prison to be signed into South Dakota law, said everything.

Republican Gov. Larry Rhoden had found enough ways to convince enough legislators such as Republican Sen. Joy Hohn of Hartford to support a proposal for a new 1,500-bed men's prison in Sioux Falls at a guaranteed maximum price of $650 million.

The turnabout came just seven months after the House had refused to provide the rest of the funding for an $825 million men's prison, of the same size but in a different design, between Harrisburg and Canton down in Lincoln County.

The Lincoln County legislation failed 34-35 in the House of Representatives a

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