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Guard Sentenced for Montana Women’s Prison Rape
Loaded on Aug. 25, 2022
by Jo Ellen Nott
by Jo Ellen Nott
On June 30, 2022, a former guard at Montana Woman’s Prison (MWP) was sentenced in Yellowstone County District Court to 10 years in prison, with five years suspended, for raping a prisoner at the lockup in 2019. The unnamed prisoner said she had sex …
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