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Detention center reports steady workload, high inmate medical needs and community work projects
Summary
Detention center director Josh Lindbloom reported lodging income, average daily population and continued high medical caseloads in January 2025; inmates logged more than 10,000 work hours supporting county projects including cemetery upkeep and community feeding events.
Josh Lindbloom, reporting for the Hardin County Detention Center on Feb. 11, described January 2025 as “business as usual” but highlighted sustained medical and operational demands and extensive inmate labor contributions to county projects.
Lindbloom reported lodging income of $324,453.96 and said the facility’s average daily population was 554 with a total count reported in the transcript as 514. He said inmate-work hours for the month totaled 10,124 and listed inmate support for community tasks including wreath placement at the veterans cemetery, trash pickup (50.2 miles and 596 bags reported), and splitting and distributing roughly 260–265 ricks of firewood to residents in need.
Lindbloom emphasized medical workload: outside appointments (28, many related to dialysis), nurse visits (1,185), emergency-room visits (4) and 278 inmates on medication. He said billing from the state remained below prior levels. "It was a busy month for law enforcement, in the county," Lindbloom said, reviewing the intake of charges and the center’s workload.
No formal actions were proposed in response to the detention-center report; the presentation was informational.
