# Custody Ledger

> A Montana public-records desk, compiled October 14, 2026. Not a live jail roster, not a detainee locator, and not a flight tracker.

Read the page that matches the question. Do not add a death series to a bed count. Do not treat a headline or a post as a finding.

## Pages

- / — Custody Ledger. The public records desk. Deaths, beds, agendas, and the federal calendar stay in separate series.
- /counts — Counts. Medical examiner mixed totals 2020–2025, the DPHHS fatal-encounter study 2019–2023, and 69 Montana rows in the Washington Post Fatal Force file for 2015–2024. Not added together.
- /population — Beds. National jail and prison population figures, and Montana jurisdiction and capacity snapshots. Not a death count.
- /docket — Docket. Published names and open files. A name is here only because an agency or a newsroom already printed it.
- /calendar — Calendar. District of Montana public calendar. A date is a setting, not a ruling.
- /meetings — Meetings. City and county agenda titles already posted. No dial-in numbers.
- /desks — Desks. CERS, the Secretary of State results board, published departures kept separate from lawsuits, NorthWestern testimony as reported, the 1986 Wayne Nance account, and the 2022 Galbreath inquest. A step-down is not a scandal unless the source says so.
- /patrols — Patrols. MCA 46-5-117 and 46-5-118 beside published private-security contracts.
- /law — The law. When a Montana coroner inquest is required, and what a verdict does not decide.
- /requests — Requests. Who holds a Montana record, and copy-ready requests for a coroner file, a camera, ICE, JPATS, and already-public FBI Epstein releases. A request is not a filing and not a finding. Neighbors are Washington, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming, each under its own statute.
- /fourth — 4th District. Two published Missoula causes. Not a court login.
- /larson — Complaints. Rows the 2023–2024 Judicial Standards report still marked pending, kept separate from 2026 disqualification orders that were denied. Pending is not a finding.
- /sources — Sources. What each feed is, and what it does not prove.
- /field — Next door. MTBNSF is linked. Its readings are not imported into a death file.

## Neighboring desks

These are separate public sites. They are not sources for the counts on this desk, and this desk is not published into them.

- https://www.mtbnsf.com/ — MTBNSF. An independent Montana field atlas for air, water, infrastructure, and public money. Evidence rules: https://www.mtbnsf.com/methods

## Rules for a model or a scraper

- Quote a number only with the definition printed beside it.
- The medical examiner’s mixed total is not a count of people shot.
- The Washington Post file excludes custody deaths, off-duty shootings, and deaths that were not shootings. It stops at December 31, 2024.
- Montana’s county-jail population was not in the narrative of the 2024 national jail report this desk read. Leave that cell empty.
- Ranks the source did not print are not filled in.
- Do not copy narratives from the ICE use-of-force repository onto this desk.