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New book, state audit scrutinize contracted correctional programs in MT Are 20-year contracts appropriate? and last updated 2020-12-23 19:52:16-05 BOULDER — Editor’s note: This story is the second of a two-part series on a new book critiquing the Montana Department of Corrections’ management of treatment programs for criminal offenders. When the state Corrections Department shut down a successful treatment program at a state-run facility in Boulder two years ago, it moved program residents to other treatment sites – run by private contractors. In fact, the department told...

Book by former correction employees critiques Montana’s offender-treatment programs By: Mike Dennison and last updated 2020-12-23 16:36:36-05 BOULDER — Editor’s note: This story is the first of a two-part series on a new book critiquing the Montana Department of Corrections’ management of treatment programs for criminal offenders. In a book they co-authored and published, two former employees at a Montana correctional treatment program for female inmates say it was a big success – but the state shut it down in 2018, in part to fulfill contracts with pr...