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A friend has sent you a link to an article found on FlatheadBeacon.com. To read the full text of this article online, click here: http://www.flatheadbeacon.com/articles/article/hardin_moves_to_mothball_empty_jail/13697/ ARTICLE EXCERPT: HARDIN – Running out of money and with bills stacking up, officials in this struggling rural city are moving to mothball their empty 464-bed jail after a proposed takeover of the facility fizzled. The jail's would-be savior, Santa Ana, Calif.-based American Police Force, dropped its bid earlier this month when its lead figure was exposed as a California con man. The $27 million jail already had sat empty more than two years — frustrating Hardin's hopes for an economic revival fueled by contracts to take out-of-state inmates.