Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

Category: jail

  • 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…

  • 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,…