Overcrowding at the largest jail in Montana has forced the facility’s commanders to turn away hundreds of people arrested in Billings over the past year. The Billings Police Department says Billings has outgrown its jail and noted that has been exacerbated by a staff shortage at YCDF. BPD officers have now been “forced to transition into a practice of allowing suspects to walk away when the offense at hand required an arrest,” officials said, noting that they are looking at solutions, incluidng additions to the 434-bed facility.
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