Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Montana Women's Prison in BIllings (Photo by Darrell Ehrlick of the Daily Montanan). Two Montana communities have expressed ...

The Montana Department of Corrections on Monday moved 50 inmates housed at the Montana Women’s Prison in Billings to the Riverside Special Needs Unit in Boulder as part of the effort to clear up beds ...

Update, May 16 at 4:48 pm: According to the Montana Department of Corrections, the U.S. Marshal Montana Violent Offender Task Force apprehended Lisa Nester. Nester was arrested without incident and is ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The Montana Department of Corrections last week issued a request for communities across the state ...

HELENA - An inmate who escaped from the Montana Women's Prison almost a year ago has been arrested in North Carolina, 12 days after giving birth to a child. Alicia Lynne Luke was arrested Tuesday in ...

Two Butte-Silver Bow commissioners want the Montana Department of Corrections to share more information on any potential plans to build a new women’s prison in Butte — before a decision is made. If ...

BILLINGS, Mont. – Governor Greg Gianforte visited Montana Women’s Prison today as it reopened to visitors and volunteers. “The Department of Corrections took numerous, necessary precautions during the ...

HELENA, Mont. — The Montana Department of Corrections said Tuesday that it is considering three localities — Hardin, Butte and the greater Boulder area — as it determines where to site a new women’s ...

A Billings man who smuggled prescription painkillers into the Montana Women's Prison was sentenced today in District Court. Darrell Reese Dennis, 59, briefly apologized before Judge G. Todd Baugh ...

Two Montana communities have expressed substantial interest in becoming the location for a new state women’s prison facility following a Department of Corrections request for information. Two more ...