Montana Women's Prison

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.

Prison officials deny any discrimination occurred.

The Billings Gazette reports that two inmates at the Montana Women’s Prison are facing charges after prosecutors say they worked with a “low-level” California drug dealer to get narcotics into the prison. 31-year-old Angelene Tropp and 43-year-old Heather Byerly both face one felony count each of transferring illegal articles...

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...

A 26-year-old woman who escaped from the Montana Women’s Prison in May was reportedly arrested by Portland, Oregon Police on Thursday.  Christina Alexandra Becker escaped on May 27, 2016, while assigned to the garden maintenance crew by apparently climbing a fence...

Former National Guard Sergeant Lindsay April Haugen was sentenced Wednesday to serve 60 years in the Montana Women’s Prison by Yellowstone County District Court Judge Gregory Todd.  Haugen acknowledged she knew it was wrong to strangle 25-year-old Robert Glenn Mast to death on Sept...