The mayor and his prison

These chuckleheads should be sent to Washington. We need people of vision like this running our country.

Out-of-pen thinking can fix jail mess

City officials in Hardin must find themselves in the unusual position of hoping for a statewide crime wave.

Unless malefactors step up to the plate and start getting themselves sent to prison in large numbers, Hardin is going to be stuck with 464 empty beds at its spanking-new, $27 million jail.
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Now it’s shaping up as one of the most expensive misunderstandings in the history of Montana.
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Basically, it comes down to this: The folks in Hardin thought they had a gentleman’s agreement with state officials – particularly those in the Department of Corrections – to send state prisoners to the private prison.

Those officials, however, said there were no contracts, no promises, no representations and not even a wink or a nod.

Check out the town website. Hardin is where they reenact that other local debacle, Custer’s Last Stand.