Gov. Greg Gianforte is calling on lawmakers to solve overcrowding in Montana’s prisons. He’s asking for 500 additional beds at the Deer Lodge prison. That’s on top of a $200 million the Legislature ...

DEER LODGE, Mont. — The Montana's Department of Corrections is working to relieve overcrowding at the state prison. Officials have transported 120 state inmates to the Tallahatchie County ...

In the meantime, hundreds of Montana inmates are being transferred to private prisons in Arizona and Mississippi as a stop gap for a prison population growing faster than the state can manage.

Montana's new contract with private prison company CoreCivic includes no limit on how many inmates the state can transfer into private prisons out of state, the Montana Department of Corrections ...

A nearly $1 million grant will be awarded to the Montana Department of Labor and Industry to support workforce reentry for ...

houses 664 inmates, bringing the total number of Montana-based prisoners managed by the private company by the end of the first quarter in 2025 to more than 1,200. The total daily adult prison ...

Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Montana State Prison (MSP), located in the Deer ...

has announced the award of a new management contract with the state of Montana ... corrections and detention management provider in the U.S. CoreCivic anticipates receiving 240 inmates at the ...

Staffing Crisis or Financial Strain? While staffing shortages at Montana State Prison have been widely reported, some experts suggest the real problem might be financial mismanagement. Outsourcing ...

DEER LODGE — The warden at the Montana State Prison has been placed on ... Associate Warden Scott McNeil is now the acting warden at the prison, Stocker said. Salmonsen, who is a Butte native, started ...