Three inmates died at the Albany County Detention Center in the seven month period between September 2021 and April 2022. Wyoming Public Radio's Jeff Victor looked into why these deaths were not made public until they were brought up at a public forum for WyoFile. Wyoming Public Radio's Kamila Kudelska asked Victor how he first found out about the deaths.
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By Rod Miller, Cowboy State Daily columnist
Wyoming has a racist past, there’s just no way around it. Historical examples are rife…don’t make me repeat them here. And, because Wyoming fetishizes its past (the good parts and the bad parts), its no wonder that systemic racism is an unresolved social issue in the Equality State.
You’ve all heard about Representative Cyrus Western’s response to the first black Sheriff in Albany County taking office. I won’t repeat that here, either.
What I’d like you to think about is the reaction statewide to this event. Social media is all a-tremble with folks calling for Western to resign, to be forced from office, to be tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail or otherwise removed from public life. This vigilante mentality is also a relic from the part of Wyoming’s past that is unfortunate, to put if kindly.