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Powell County Courthouse, Deer Lodge. The city is perhaps best known as the home of the Montana State Prison, a major local employer. [5] The Montana State Hospital in Warm Springs and the former state tuberculosis sanitarium in nearby Galen are the result of the power the western part of the state held over Montana at statehood due to the copper and mineral wealth in that area. [6]
The Montana State Prison is a men's correctional facility of the Montana Department of Corrections in unincorporated Powell County, Montana, [2] about 3.5 miles (5.6 km) west of Deer Lodge. [3] The current facility was constructed between 1974 and 1979 in response to the continued degeneration of the original facility located in downtown Deer ...
Male. Montana State Prison (Unincorporated Powell County, near Deer Lodge) [2]; Private/regional prisons for men Cascade County Regional Prison (Great Falls) [2]Crossroads Correctional Facility (Unincorporated Toole County, near Shelby), [2] privately operated by the Corrections Corporation of America
Powell County countryside, near Avon, Montana. According to the United States Census Bureau , the county has a total area of 2,332.7 square miles (6,042 km 2 ), of which 2,326.4 square miles (6,025 km 2 ) is land and 6.3 square miles (16 km 2 ) (0.3%) is water.
Galen is an unincorporated community in Deer Lodge County, Montana, United States. It is located near the Montana State Prison and in this community is a handful of residential housing facilities and apartments. [2]
In 1912, Lewis and Clark and Powell County authorities contracted with the Montana State Prison to use convict labor to repair and improve the old MacDonald road. Throughout the 1920s, the state and county authorities debated which route between Helena and Deer Lodge–Mullan Pass, Priest Pass or MacDonald–should receive improvements. [2]
The following 16 pages use this file: Anaconda, Montana; Deer Lodge County, Montana; Dry Cottonwood Creek (Deer Lodge County, Montana) Galen, Montana
Warm Springs State Hospital. Deer Lodge was one of the original 9 Montana counties, as constituted with the establishment of the Montana Territory in 1864. [5] The original county included what are now Silver Bow County (separated in 1881 [6]), Deer Lodge County, Granite County (separated in 1893) and Powell County (separated in 1901 [7]).