State Relocates 50 Incarcerated Women
About 70 women are serving prison time in county jails because there is not enough space for them in a long-term facility. Stocker said the agency will reconfigure Pine Hills as part of its plan to increase the number of beds statewide from 300 to 500. The department did not provide a timeline for those changes.
- ▪About 70 women are serving prison time in county jails because there is not enough space for them in a long-term facility.
- ▪Stocker said the agency will reconfigure Pine Hills as part of its plan to increase the number of beds statewide from 300 to 500.
- ▪The department did not provide a timeline for those changes.
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News Posted on July 23, 2026 Posted on July 23, 2026 State Relocates 50 Incarcerated Women The Montana Department of Corrections intends to relocate women currently incarcerated at Boulder’s Riverside prison, which holds about 50 of the state’s 370 female prisoners, to Pine Hills Correctional Facility in Miles City, according to agency spokesperson Carolynn Stocker. A press release shared by Stocker Thursday, July 9, announced that the agency planned “to explore options for the use of the 144-bed Pine Hills Correctional Facility in Miles City to potentially house adult females.” Later, in response to questions about the press release from Montana Free Press, Stocker clarifi ed that it is the “intent of the department” to move female inmates from Riverside to Pine Hills.
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