Hardin's story is a sad one. The town is on the edge of the Crow Indian reservation. Jobs are scarce. It is near the Little Big Horn Battlefield (Custer's last stand). The people were duped into thinking the prison building would be a good idea. They were recently duped again by a con artist, a convicted felon, who claimed he would run a for-profit jail in Hardin. news from today's Billings Gazette
... but this is off the thread topic.