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 ...

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 ...

We’re following up on the Montana Department of Corrections efforts to relieve overcrowding at the state prison. We recently told you officials transported 240 inmates to other facilities around ...

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — They're known as "frog men," inmates who are forced to sleep on prison floors across the Dominican Republic, often next to overflowing toilets or holes in the ...

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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.

An upstate prison was still locked down Thursday after guards retook control of three dorms following an inmate uprising sparked when a corrections officer seized one prisoner’s illegal cellphones.

But his life took a different turn at the age of 25, when he was sentenced to more than two decades in prison ... inmates do not have adequate training to use firehoses, they typically mount ...