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UPDATE: Escapee from Women’s Prison in Billings Captured
UPDATE: Escapee from Women’s Prison in Billings Captured
The Montana Department of Corrections is searching for a female inmate who escaped the Montana Women's Prison in Billings today (Friday 5/14), and they have Billings Police, Yellowstone County Sheriffs, and the U.S. Marshalls Service involved in the search.
COVID: Prisoners Not Being Tested Prior to Release
COVID: Prisoners Not Being Tested Prior to Release
Whether you agree or disagree with the move by Governor Steve Bullock (D-MT) to call for some prisoners to be released due to the coronavirus- here's the question I had: would they be testing the inmates prior to releasing them out on to the streets?
Woman Walks Away from Passages
Woman Walks Away from Passages
The Gazette reports yet another woman– serving out a sentence for a Custer County burglary– walked away from the Billings prerelease center Wednesday night, according to Alternatives Incorporated and the Montana Department of Corrections...
Armed Standoff Ends Without Fatality
Armed Standoff Ends Without Fatality
Q2 reports that an unidentified man in his sixties was taken into custody after exchanging gunfire with police and holing up for hours in an east Billings residence Tuesday evening. He reportedly fired shots at two Montana Department of Corrections parole officers who knocked on his door on the 1600 block of Second Avenue North just after 4:30 p...
Another Passages Walk-Away
Another Passages Walk-Away
Another woman walked away from Passages Women’s Program. The Montana Department of Corrections is seeking 29-year-old Kaycie Kister, a 5-foot-9-inch Caucasian female with brown hair and hazel eyes. Kister was sentenced for criminal endangerment in Yellowstone County...
New Warden at Billings Prison
New Warden at Billings Prison
New Warden Jennie Hansen started Monday at the Montana Women’s Prison in Billings, 11 days after she was named to the position. KTVQ reports that Hansen is a Billings native who graduated Billings Central High School. She then graduated St...