Yup, North Dakota is the Continental U.S. equivilant to Siberia (aka The Russian Front). A perfect place for Federal Prisons. It's so cold, prison inmates don't even want to go outside to jump the fence and the ground is too frozen to dig tunnels. They either die of frostbite, or drown in the floods. Nice.
As long as it keeps OUT the rif twiddles, & keeps IN the inmates, it's the perfect climate for me......