Montana State Prison

Scollard was first booked into the state prison in 2014 for robbery and attempted robbery in Yellowstone County.

Gov. Steve Bullock rejected an offer from CoreCivic to extend its contract to manage Montana’s only private prison, because the company asked for a 15 percent increase in payments.
Bullock told MTN News that “It doesn’t make sense for Montanans...

25 year-old Eduardo Lopez, who admitted that he drove drunk the wrong way down Interstate 90 and collided head-on with another vehicle, killing the female driver, was sentenced on Friday in Missoula District Court.

Former Grizzly football player Beau Donaldson is currently on parole after spending about a third of his 10 years prison sentence for raping an acquaintance in Missoula.

A Billings man’s plea agreement was supposed to keep him out of jail, but Judge Mary Jane Knisely sent him away anyway. 64-year-old Jose Cobos admitted to fatally shooting his friend in 2015, in exchange for a plea agreement which spared him from prison, but at his Thursday sentencing, the Yellowsto…

39-year-old Joseph Keith was sentenced Thursday to eight years at the Montana State Prison with five years probation, after repeated violations of court orders.  Keith threatened his ex-wife and her girlfriend with a gun.  Both women testified at Keith’s sentencing that on May 9, 2016, they were at …

34 year-old Terrence Tyrell Edwards is in custody in Billings for allegedly kidnapping and assaulting a 22 year-old Lake County woman.

In 1992, then Missoula County Sheriff's Deputy Bob Parcell was shot in the chest by activist and tax protester Gordon Sellner, who was later convicted of attempted deliberate homicide and sentenced to life in prison.

A Montana State Prison guard pleaded guilty Wednesday to smuggling contraband to inmates, telling a judge that he sneaked marijuana and cigarettes into the Deer Lodge prison 20 times over the course of about a year.  In return, associates of the inmates sent 25-year-old Martin Reap payments thr…

State officials are breathing a sigh of relief after Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell said the Greater Sage Grouse did not warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act.