By JENNIFER McKEE
Gazette State Bureau
HELENA - The dispute over a 464-bed jail sitting empty at the edge of Hardin was on stark display here Tuesday as hundreds of Hardin-area jail supporters filled the Capitol rotunda for a rally.
Led by Greg Smith, executive director of the Two Rivers Authority, the economic-development arm of the city of Hardin, supporters took an adversarial tone, arguing that state interference has prevented them from opening the jail and offering more than 100 new jobs in their economically depressed area.
"We don't want a handout," Smith told the boisterous crowd, which included three teenage dancers from the Lodge Grass High School Indian Club along with a traditional drumming group. "But we do want some assistance."
But state officials, who met with the protesters for more than an hour after the rally, said that it is state law and the lack of need for jail space that has the facility mothballed and in danger of defaulting on $27 million in revenue bonds issued to build the jail.
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