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The Montana Department of Corrections is a state agency of Montana that operates state prisons and manages community-corrections programs.
On January 1, 2008 more than 1 in 100 adults in the United States were in prison or jail. [7] [8] Total U.S. incarceration peaked in 2008. [5] The U.S. incarceration rate was the highest in the world in 2008. [4] It is no longer the highest rate. [9] The United States has one of the highest rates of female incarceration. [10]
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Montana. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 119 law enforcement agencies employing 3,229 [ 1 ] sworn police officers, about 201 for each 100,000 residents.
Correctional Officers and Parole Agents are sworn Peace Officers per California Penal code sections 830.5, as their primary duties are to provide public safety and correctional services in and outside of state prison grounds, state-operated medical facilities, and camps while engaged in the performance of their duties.
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 ...
This story was originally published by Montana Free Press at montanafreepress.org. Three inmates have died in custody at the Cascade County Detention Center since June 29. Leon Laverdure, 51, died ...
Two Montana inmates were charged with attempted murder Tuesday after allegedly using makeshift weapons to attack corrections officers in a county jail, sending one of the officers to the hospital ...
The original California Institution for Women was opened in 1932 on the site of the current California Correctional Institution. That facility was closed in 1952 after the 1952 Kern County earthquake , and the women incarcerated in that facility were moved to the current CIW location, which had just opened.