Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

Category: Hardin

  • Arm Twisting

    My daughter come home from school a couple of days ago with an interesting story. She told me some women was at the school trying to round up kids to go on a bus trip for Helena in support of the Jail in Hardin to try to pressure the state to let them place inmates…

  • Interest

    I wonder why it takes a Legislator that lives almost 300 miles away to start questioning the deal with the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/02/06/news/state/15-hardin.txt">Hardin Jail</a>.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>A state lawmaker from Butte has asked corrections officials and representatives of Hardin to explain why a $27 million jail was built in the southern Montana city but now sits empty.<br…

  • Opposition

    Source: <a href="http://www.bighorncountynews.com/">Big Horn County News</a><br />n<br />n<center>Tester sides with state over jail</center><br />n<br />n<blockquote><br />n<br />nby Daniel Person<br />nBig Horn County News<br />n<br />nU.S. Sen. Jon Tester Tuesday said he has not encouraged federal agencies to contract with the detention center in Hardin because of the state’s stance on using the jail to house…

  • The Saga Continues

    The Hardin jail saga just keeps going on. Is that any surprise with a $20 million dollar facility? Now the city if Hardin and Two Rivers Authority, the economic development authority, <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/12/12/news/state/18-hardinsues_x.txt">have sued the State</a> to overturn the Attorney General's opinion. Not once have we heard about any Legislative remedy that might fix this…

  • Knife

    The knife has finally fallen on the Hardin "detention facility." The <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/12/04/news/state/17-hardinjail_x.txt">Attorney General has decided</a> the law states that only the Department of Corrections has authority to take out of state prisoners. <br />n<br />n<blockquote>A multijurisdictional detention center may contract for the confinement of out-of-state and federal inmates only for the purposes authorized in…

  • Running Away

    You might remember me mentioning the Hardin Prison a <a href="http://www.sarpysam.com/archives/2928-Empty.html">couple</a> of <a href="http://www.sarpysam.com/archives/2963-Pickle.html">times</a> and how stupid it was for the local economic development entity to build it when they weren't sure they could put prisoners in it. Now it turns out the director of Two Rivers Authority, the economic development authority who built the…

  • Pickle

    The Hardin Jail <a href="http://sarpysam.com/archives/2928-Empty.html">I talked about earlier</a> looks like it might be in a <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/11/10/news/state/18-hardin_x.txt">hell of a pickle</a>. The Montana Attorney General feels that the "facility" can not house out of state inmates. This could be a killer. I'm glad I didn't invest in this "Jail of Dreams." <br />n<br />nTwo Rivers Authority,…

  • Empty

    If you build it, they will come. This seems to be the philosophy the , Hardin's economic development arm, used when it built a jail for $20 million dollars. They didn't have any contracts for prisoners, they just built the damn thing anyway knowing somehow that everything would work out okay. Now they are in…

  • Interest Rates

    I can't believe this. It is reported in <a href="http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070315/NEWS01/703150303/1002">this story</a> that the interest rate for refund anticipation loans range from 85 percent at H&R Block to 170 percent at Jackson Hewitt. I've always said these loans were a mistake for people to make and this just proves it.<br />n<br />nI was wondering why Jackson…

  • Unbelivable

    <div class="serendipity_imageComment_left" style="width: 110px"><div class="serendipity_imageComment_img"><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/smokie07132006.jpg'><img width='110' height='82' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/smokie07132006.serendipityThumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></div><div class="serendipity_imageComment_txt">Pillar of smoke from the Pine Ridge fire.</div></div>I have been watching the smoke all day from the Hardin area. It's over 90 degrees and the wind has been blowing strong all day around 20 mph so it's getting worse and…