Montana State Prison News

Jaydee Haagenson, a Great Falls man accused of choking his friend to death in May, will spend the next seven years at Montana State Prison on a former charge.

The Spokane Sheriff's Department got a tip this morning that led to the arrest of James Clemons.

A Crime Stoppers tip solved the April 21st burglary of the Barker Road Hico convenience store.

A man who admitted to setting his ex-girlfriend's car on fire will not face time behind bars.

Randy Kallen will spend at least 40 years in the Montana State Prison for beating and sexually assaulting two teen girls - a crime that District Judge Dirk Sandefur described as the most heinous he has presided over in his career.

The 2005 kidnap-related charges against Kelly Frank were ultimately dismissed but Frank was sentenced to 10 years in prison for overcharging the talk show host for painting work at his ranch.

HELENA - Normal activities are resuming at the Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge after tests revealed an employee with influenza did not have the swine flu virus.

HELENA - The Montana State Prison has canceled visitation through the weekend and is taking other precautions after an employee tested positive for influenza.

Two escapees of the Butte pre-release center were back in custody Friday. Kevin Middendorf, 45, was apprehended on Wednesday in Morgantown, West Virginia.

Here is the latest Montana news from The Associated Press KALISPELL, Mont. Kalispell police say an 11-year-old boy has been arrested in the shooting death of his father.

A Butte man was sentenced to prison Thursday for his role in a drive-by shooting of a 53-year-old man in July.

A Billings man who admitted to planning a robbery with friends where another man was brutally beaten was sentenced in court Tuesday.

Jonathon Higgins won't serve prison time for an accidental shooting that killed 20-year-old John Howry last year, as long as Higgins stays out of trouble and spends 100 hours a year talking to students about gun safety.

Written by ZACHARY FRANZ GREAT FALLS, Mont. Montana's Department of Corrections is striving to work more effectively with its largest minority, Native Americans.

County Attorney John Parker called it one of the worst rape cases he's seen in Cascade County - two girls, ages 14 and 17, both with eyes nearly swollen shut, one with a broken arm, one with broken teeth.

The first time Dan Coburn was accused of sexually assaulting a child, he beat the charges.

A file photo of convicted killer Ronald Smith at Montana State Prison. Smith, originally from Red Deer, Alta., killed two men during a booze and drug fuelled road trip in 1982.

Montana's Department of Corrections is striving to work more effectively with its largest minority, Native Americans.

Ronald Smith at the Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge, Montana, in this June 30, 2008 file photo.

An Anaconda man was sentenced to 30 years in the Montana State Prison for raping an 18-year-old woman in December 2007.