Amendment to send Montana prisoners to Arizona scrapped
A Senate committee on Tuesday voted to scrap plans to send 120 incarcerated Montanans to a private prison in Arizona.
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A Senate committee on Tuesday voted to scrap plans to send 120 incarcerated Montanans to a private prison in Arizona.
A Senate committee on Tuesday voted to scrap plans to send 120 incarcerated Montanans to a private prison in Arizona.
The proposal had been added to the state budget last month as a relieve valve. Roughly 280 state inmates are held up in county jails.
Last week was another major deadline for lawmakers to pass bills out of one house and send them to the other.
We are approaching the 71st day of the 90 day legislative session. Last week was another major deadline for lawmakers to pass bills out of one house and send them to the other. We saw hundreds of bills move through both chambers and saw a push from lawmakers to introduce new legislation in time to meet that deadline.