South Dakota’s $825 million prison project in rural Lincoln County faces legislative and legal hurdles as the proposed site and price tag come under fire.

The festival kicks off at 7 p.m. Wednesday with a free screening of "Charles Ives' America" at the Normal Theater; several concerts and a lecture are to follow at ISU.

"A prison, like a jail, is a necessary government function, and it must be located somewhere," a state circuit judge ruled.

The school plans to demolish the existing buildings at the peninsula site and build six new ones, creating more than 4,000 ...