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MT: meeting with Crow tribe/feds/private prison company re: uses for empty prison in Hardin

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Talks held on Hardin jail future ED KEMMICK Of The Gazette Staff | Posted: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 Sherry Matteucci, a former U.S. attorney for Montana, gave more details Tuesday on a recent meeting in Hardin to discuss possible uses for that city?s vacant detention facility. Matteucci, now a private attorney in Billings, said she was retained by Municipal Capital Markets, the underwriter of the economic development bonds that were sold to finance construction of the jail, to work with the Crow Tribe to develop a project involving the facility. In a statement released Tuesday, Matteucci said she is working with Crow Tribal Chairman Cedric Black Eagle?s staff ?to design a project which would involve a partnership between the Crow Tribe and others to provide services for both American Indians and non-Indians...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 17, 2010 (boomark / email).