Montana State Prison houses around 1,600 inmates. About half of those are inmate workers, who do a number of different jobs to make products sold all across the Treasure State.

At Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge, many inmates wake up every day and go to work. "This is just like a regular job on the street,” said inmate David Smith. “It's from 7 a. m. to 4:30 p. m ...

Montana Correctional Enterprises, the prison work and training program, first worked with MSU students in 2019. The project was sidelined in 2020 and 2021 during the height of the pandemic, but ...

Since August 2023, the corrections department has housed 131 staff members through other short-term housing options. The new ...

The last load of raw milk left the ranch outside Montana State Prison on Dec. 27, drying up a decades-long run for the prison’s work program that was clipped by a shift in a single company’s ...

He has since moved back to Idaho. Montana State Prison is the largest correctional facility in the state, housing about 1,600 male inmates and employing about 640 uniformed and non-uniformed workers.

Montana’s prison population has grown faster than the national average, and last year 15,000 people in the state were either behind bars or under criminal justice supervision.

The Army National Guard will provide operational assistance at the Montana State Prison, located near Deer Lodge, where 166 of 1,407 inmates have tested positive for the virus.

In late 2015, the Montana Commission on Sentencing began working with the Council of State Government Justice Center to look at, among many criminal justice issues such as high recidivism, prison ...

Montana Correctional Enterprises, the prison work and training program, first worked with MSU students in 2019. The project was sidelined in 2020 and 2021 during the height of the pandemic, but ...