Prison

It's a refrain we've heard often over the past decade or so. And especially now, as the state is looking at where to place a state mental hospital for prison inmates.

What's with all of these weak "suspended sentences" that judges are handing out here in Montana? Why is it that criminals convicted of serious crimes like rape and murder are given these suspended sentences?

A judge has sentenced a Helena woman to 100 years in state prison after she pleaded guilty to delivering children to a convicted rapist.

Authorities say Haverty and Donald Ray Cherry met Knight at a Billings casino and later took turns decapitating him.

A judge sentenced a Michigan man to one year in prison after he scammed two Montana men out of more than $200,000.

A prison employee and two inmates and the wife of one of the inmates are charged with conspiring to bring drugs into a private prison.

A Great Falls man convicted in the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl at a house party has been sentenced to 100 years in prison.

Bozeman resident Ellen Lorraine Van Ausdol, who ran a money management service for court-appointed clients, was sentenced Friday to nine months in prison.

A Montana man dubbed the AK-47 bandit and accused of holding up banks in several states over a five-year period has been sentenced in a Nebraska federal court to 35 years in prison.

If you do the crime you lose many of your Constitutional Rights - voting being one. Where do you come down on prisoners voting? Vote.