On Thursday, May 21st, Montana State Prison opened a window into how it trains future correctional officers as students moved ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The issue of affordable housing has been a problem for communities across Montana, but in Deer Lodge, a new housing complex is ...

DEER LODGE — The murder trial of a Montana State Prison inmate accused of killing a fellow prisoner began Tuesday in Deer Lodge. Shaun Duncan Morrison, 30, is charged with killing 53-year-old Julio ...

At the Montana State Prison, they’re doing a special training where correctional officers are learning a lot of techniques ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A dozen or so members and supporters of the Montana State Prison’s union on Friday called for ...

A $200,000 grant will restore the historic theater inside the old Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge. Restoration starts this ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. For each of the past two years, Montana’s Department of Corrections has sent 120 prisoners to a ...

DEER LODGE — Prison inmates won't be get ting a jaunt to town for some court appearances anymore, thanks to a new telecommunications system that makes the trip obsolete. District Judge Ted Mizner said ...

MISSOULA — Ian Scott Barclay, 29, of Deer Lodge, was sentenced Wednesday for conspiring to distribute drugs into Montana State Prison and paying bribes to a prison worker. Barclay was given 92 months’ ...

MISSOULA — Kate Blessinger Briggeman, my grandmother, was a devout Catholic. The first entry in her diary for April 16, 1959, is not surprising. “Jubilee day in Helena at the Cathedral,” she wrote in ...

Ray, who lives in Deer Lodge, took a $5 an hour pay cut to take a new job in Butte. Until recently, staff were subject to "forced holdovers," in which an officer was required to work another shift on ...