Lawmakers consider proposals to expand corrections capacity at home while funding placements at out-of-state facilities

Lawmakers consider proposals to expand corrections capacity at home while funding placements at out-of-state facilities

At a quick and quiet committee hearing in February, a Bozeman mother of two took the podium, telling the committee about her husband, now held in a prison 1,200 miles away. "We were only able to visit him once in Deer Lodge before it felt like everything was ripped from us when he was transferred to Arizona," said Ellen Binkley, supporting a bill that would require the Department of...