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| Eastern Montana jails overflowing |
| By bismarcktribune.com - Tom Lutey |
| Published: 01/08/2014 |
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GLENDIVE, Mont. — Sheriff Craig Anderson scans the inmate roster for the Dawson County Detention Center and sees real problems. There’s an inmate charged with murder and another for a petty crime. He can’t put them together, but he’s four inmates over capacity, so he can’t easily keep them apart. “Do you really want to put an 18-year-old, no registration, no driver’s license, in with Levi Stark? Neither has been convicted. So, we’re separating there,” Anderson said. Awaiting trial, Stark is accused of stabbing a man to death. “Now you have post-conviction misdemeanor and felony. Throw in sex offenders. Then we have gangbangers and co-defendants. So we’re challenged on that front as well," he said. “Ideally, you want two cells open so you can manage a population within a population, but we don’t have that.” Read More. |
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