The Two Rivers Regional Detention Facility. Still image from Two Rivers Authority / YouTube
The Bureau of Indian Affairs is no longer housing inmates at a long-troubled detention facility in Montana, The Missoulian reports. The Two Rivers Regional Detention Facility in Hardin was receiving inmates from 18 tribes in multiple states, the paper said. But the BIA ended the contract in October for reasons that remain unexplained. The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation of North Dakota also had its own agreement but that apparently ended too because the facility's inmate population has now dropped to 0, the paper reported. The $27 million facility has a checkered past -- it sat empty for years before finally opening in September 2014. It was financed by the city of Hardin. Get the Story:
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