Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

Category: prison

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…