Filed by 27 inmates, the lawsuit alleges that employees of the food service contractor ordered that the contaminated food be ...

Filed by 27 inmates, the lawsuit alleges that employees of the food service contractor ordered that the contaminated food be served.

The Cascade County Detention Center had a population of 415 on the morning of Oct. 1. The stated capacity of the jail, built around 25 years ago, is 372. Overcrowding isn’t a new issue at the jail. It ...

A recent lawsuit filed in federal court says that a contracted food preparation company operating the meal service for the Cascade County Detention Center saw an inmate who experienced a ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. GREAT FALLS — Cascade County has reached a settlement in a wrongful death case with the estate of ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — On Monday, Cascade County Sheriff Jesse Slaughter released a statement that three inmates in the detention center have died within the last two weeks, and they were all separate ...

GREAT FALLS — The Cascade County sheriff says the jail is so overcrowded he is no longer booking people charged with misdemeanors or non-violent offenses. The Great Falls Tribune reports the regional ...

A woman experiencing delusions sat in Montana’s Cascade County jail for 125 days while waiting for a bed at the state psychiatric hospital. A man with schizophrenia spent 100 days last year in the ...

Late at night on April 27, Brilz hanged herself. Her suicide, along with that of 22-year-old Cory Lattin in the Cascade County jail on Wednesday, highlights a stubborn issue in Montana. People ...

The Cascade County Detention Center is the only jail in Montana with a contract to hold immigration detainees for longer than 72 hours. According to Sheriff Jesse Slaughter, it’s a matter of revenue.

The county’s first diversion program is the addition of pre-trial services for those charged with certain low-level felonies. The general idea is to fund monitoring services to keep eligible people ...