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House rejects effort to remove funding for Montana inmates housed out-of-state
Summary
An amendment to strip funding for contracts that house state prisoners in private out-of-state facilities failed after lawmakers debated capacity, civil-rights concerns and local jail overcrowding.
Lede: A House amendment to remove roughly $11.8 million per year intended to pay for Montana inmates housed in out-of-state contract beds failed on April 1, as House members debated whether the state had short-term alternatives.
Nut graf: The amendment, offered during debate on the biennial budget (HB2), would have struck funding used to pay for contracted beds in private facilities in states such as Arizona and Mississippi. Supporters called the contracts costly and risky to oversight and inmate protections; opponents said the state has an immediate capacity crisis in its prisons and county jails and no…
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