Prison News | Montana

• Education & Rehabilitation
• Executions, Death Row, & the Death Penalty
• Gangs in Prison
• Health & Medical Treatment
• Prison Classification, Placement, and Release
• Prison Conditions & Corruption
• Prison Life & Prison Culture
• Riots, Lockdowns & Escapes
• Suicides in Prison
• Workplace & Industry News and Science & Tech

Education & Rehabilitation

Executions, Death Row & the Death Penalty

Gangs in Prison

Health & Medical Treatment

• Group: Montana warehouses mentally ill inmates
  
  HELENA, MONT. — Montana officials seeking to free up bed space in the state hospital transfer mentally ill patients to prison, where they are warehoused, mistreated and denied proper mental-health care, a disability-rights advocacy group claims in a federal lawsuit Monday.

  Disability Rights Montana is accusing seven top officials with the state Department of Corrections and Department of Public Health and Human Services of cruel and unusual punishment and due process violations. It filed its lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Butte.... [ more ]

  Associated Press, Monday, March 31, 2014
  
  

Prison Classification, Placement, & Release

• Prosecutors seek 15-year prison term for ex-athletic trainer
  
  HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Federal prosecutors compared a 79-year-old ex-high school athletic trainer in Montana to another high-profile pedophile defendant, Larry Nassar, in seeking the maximum penalty after he admitted coercing high school boys into sexual abuse over decades.... [ more ]
  kulr8.com, Wednesday, July 24, 2019
  
  
• Montana to cancel women's prison program, add boot camp to settle ACLU discrimination lawsuit
  
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana's Department of Corrections will offer boot camp for female prisoners and cancel a mandatory treatment program that was criticized as degrading under a settlement announced Tuesday in a discrimination lawsuit.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Thursday, October 31, 2013
  
  
• Mother of girl who killed herself says judge who gave rapist teacher 30-day sentence is 'just covering his butt' with apology - as hundreds of protestors demand his resignation
  
  The mother of Cherice Moralez has rejected the apology of the Montana judge who sentenced her rapist teacher to 30 days in jail - saying he's 'only covering his butt.'... [ more ]
  Mail Online, Tuesday, September 3, 2013
  
  

Prison Conditions & Corruption

• Jefferson jailer faces charges of sex with inmate
  
  BOULDER, Mont. (AP) — A part-time Jefferson County jailer has been arrested on charges of having sex with an inmate and taking contraband into the jail.

  Sheriff Craig Doolittle said Wednesday that Rodney Mortimore of Boulder was arrested after ...... [ more ]

  Associated Press, Thursday, April 17, 2014
  
  

Prison Life & Culture

• A tour of Old Montana State Prison reminds you that life is better on the outside
  
  Located about three quarters of the way along the I-90 between Missoula and Butte, Deer Lodge is a quiet town that was home for more than a century to the Montana State Prison, a troubled institution that was perennially overcrowded and the sight of several riots, culminating in one that took the life of a deputy warden.... [ more ]
  PostMedia News, Sunday, August 10, 2014
  
  
• Great Falls woman sentenced for sex with 13-year-old runaway
  
  GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) - A Great Falls woman who acknowledged allowing a 13-year-old runaway to stay with her has been sentenced to 10 years with the Department of Corrections for having sex with the boy.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Friday, July 26, 2013
  
  
• Man sentenced for tampering with evidence in Butte beating death
  
  BUTTE, Mont. (AP) - A homeless man who pleaded guilty to helping hide bloody clothing after an Anaconda man was beaten to death has been sentenced to five years with the Department of Corrections.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Friday, June 14, 2013
  
  

Riots, Lockdowns & Escapes

• Escaped Montana inmate shot and killed by deputy sheriff
  
  July 5 (Reuters) - A convicted sex offender who escaped from a Montana prison was shot and killed on Friday by a deputy sheriff at a shopping center in Billings, police said...... [ more ]
  Reuters News, Friday, July 5, 2013
  
  

Suicides in Prison

Workplace & Industry News, and Science & Tech News

• Department of Corrections names new warden for Montana Women's Prison
  
  HELENA, Mont. (AP) - The Department of Corrections has named a new warden for the Montana Women's Prison in Billings. Joan Daly, who has been deputy warden for treatment services, will succeed Jo Acton, who is retiring on July 1 after 18 ...... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Friday, June 21, 2013