The classroom is inside the North Dakota State Penitentiary. Education is a point of pride for the North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, which last year was the national leader among all adult education centers, prisons or otherwise, for passing rate on the GED exam. Nearing capacityAcross North Dakota, cells are filling up. The North Dakota Association of Counties has pushed back against this change, but Bertsch said the law also allows counties to make decisions on who they incarcerate. This year, Farm inmates cleaned the Dakota Zoo on United Way Day of Caring.

Source: Daily Sun October 15, 2017 05:03 UTC