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| ND oil boom filling Montana's jails |
| By rapidcityjournal.com |
| Published: 01/02/2014 |
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GLENDIVE | Sheriff Craig Anderson scans the inmate roster for Dawson County Detention Center and sees real problems. There’s an inmate charged with murder and another for petty crime. He can’t put them in cells together, but he’s four inmates over capacity, so he can’t easily keep them apart. “Do you really want to put an 18-year-old, no registration, no driver’s license, in with Levi Stark? Neither has been convicted. So, we’re separating there,” Anderson said. Awaiting trial, Stark is accused of stabbing a man to death. “Now you have post-conviction misdemeanor and felony. Throw in sex offenders. Then we have gangbangers and co-defendants. So we’re challenged on that front as well," he said. "Ideally, you want two cells open so you can manage a population within a population, but we don’t have that.” Read More. |
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