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Follow the routing, not the rumor. A routing note is not a verified transaction.
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A mention in correspondence is not a resolved record.
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Place names repeat. Fact patterns stay in separate files.
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One question can have more than one custodian.
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Match the claim to the source. A mention is not a verdict.
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Redact only what the law requires, and say what was withheld.
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Release what the law allows. Say what it withholds.
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A sourced page corrects a rumor. Distinctions stay on the page.
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Who holds it, what can be released, and what is withheld.
Wire · @altmilknews · not a filing
Asks the U.S. Attorney and the Attorney General to release what they have. · Asks where a government response is, and tags the U.S. Marshals, the U.S. Attorney, and Missoula. · Posts a sourced note on EFTA01526966: a July 2007 JPMorgan Fedwire debit, described as via WEST SEC MISSOULA to Ideal Manufacturing, memo about a batch plant. · Asks the U.S. Attorney and the Attorney General to release what they have. · Asks where a government response is, and tags the U.S. Marshals, the U.S. Attorney, and Missoula. · Posts a sourced note on EFTA01526966: a July 2007 JPMorgan Fedwire debit, described as via WEST SEC MISSOULA to Ideal Manufacturing, memo about a batch plant.
Desk up. Public posts compiled. Compiled 2026-10-14. The private fleet is not on this network. No packet sent.
Asks the U.S. Attorney and the Attorney General to release what they have.
A demand on X. Not a record produced, and not a finding that either office is withholding a named file.
Open the postAsks where a government response is, and tags the U.S. Marshals, the U.S. Attorney, and Missoula.
A question. Tagging an office is not proof the office has a file, and not proof it has answered.
Open the postPosts a sourced note on EFTA01526966: a July 2007 JPMorgan Fedwire debit, described as via WEST SEC MISSOULA to Ideal Manufacturing, memo about a batch plant.
The post itself says this is not a Montana account, not delivery in Montana, and not knowledge of a crime. The desk has not re-opened the DOJ page image.
Open the postArming rings this page at once, then again when a later check carries a different newest post. A post is still not a filing.
Population · not a death count · October 14, 2026
America publishes who is in a jail or a prison. It does not publish one list of who died there. A person on supervision is not a person in a cell. A state prisoner held in a county jail is not that jail’s whole population. None of these figures is added to the medical examiner series or to the Post’s 69 Montana shootings.
One day in a local jail · against · A year of admissions
At midyear 2024, local jails in the United States held 658,700 people. The average daily population for July 2023 through June 2024 was 667,700. In that same year jails admitted 7.9 million people. The bed count is the stock. The admissions are the flow. A death in the first days is in the flow, and it will not show up as a large share of the one-day count.
Unconvicted, in jail · against · Sentenced, in prison
Of the midyear 2024 jail population, 68% (450,700) were unconvicted. Prison is a different ledger. At yearend 2023, state and federal authorities had jurisdiction over 1,254,200 people. Those two numbers are not one system, and they are not added here.
A counted bed · against · An unfinished death file
The Bureau of Justice Statistics last published a full mortality series through 2019: 1,200 deaths in local jails, and 3,853 deaths in state prisons and private prisons under state contract. Suicide was the leading single cause in jails that year, at 49 deaths per 100,000 jail inmates. Illness accounted for almost 87% of state-prisoner deaths from 2001 through 2019. After 2019, the public federal death file is the Death in Custody Reporting Act, and it is not a complete census.
Same statute, different rate · against · Race, as BJS printed it
At midyear 2024 the jail incarceration rate was 566 per 100,000 for Black residents and 149 per 100,000 for white residents. BJS states the first rate as four times the second. This page does not reprint a Montana race rate, because that figure was not in the narrative of the report.
At yearend 2023, the Bureau of Justice Statistics counted 4,985 people under Montana correctional jurisdiction, up 6.3% from 4,691 a year earlier. Of that 2023 jurisdiction count, 2,427 (48.7%) were in private prisons and 556 (11.2%) were state prisoners held in local jails. BJS said four states — Montana, New Mexico, Arizona, and Tennessee — held more than a quarter of their jurisdictional population in private facilities. Nationally, 88,600 prisoners were in private facilities and 65,600 were in local jails, together 12% of the U.S. prison population.
A legislative snapshot dated October 1, 2024, using the department’s own average daily population, is a later day and a different cut. It is not added to 4,985. Secure facilities were over the operational capacity printed in that report. Community supervision that day was 10,180 people, and they were not in those beds.
| October 1, 2024 | Capacity | ADP | Of capacity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men, secure, including jail holds | 2,549 | 2,741 | 107.5% |
| Women, secure, including jail holds | 240 | 307 | 127.9% |
| Men held in jails, inside that male ADP | Not printed | 85 | DOC holds, not the county census |
| Women held in jails, inside that female ADP | Not printed | 59 | DOC holds, not the county census |
The 2024 national jail report has a state table. Montana’s county-jail population is not printed in the narrative this desk read. The missing cell stays empty. It is not filled with the 556 state prisoners BJS placed in local jails at yearend 2023, and it is not filled with the 85 and 59 department holds above.
Jail Inmates in 2024 · Prisoners in 2023 · Jail mortality, 2000–2019 · Prison mortality, 2001–2019 · Legislative fiscal snapshot, October 2024