Montana Women's Prison Procedures

Sec. 1: General Administration

• 1.1.6 Priority Incident Reporting & Acting Director (Restricted)
• 1.1.10 Facility Tours (11/24/2020)
• 1.1.14 Safety Inspections (Restricted)
• 1.1.17 Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA) (07/15/2021)

Sec. 2: Fiscal Management

• 1.2.10 Canteen (07/26/2013)
• 1.2.12 Inmate Welfare Accounts (01/23/2019)
• 1.2.14a Travel, per diem, and pay while attending CDOB (10/30/2014)

Sec. 3: Personnel

• 1.3.1 Confidential Reports (Restricted)
• 1.3.16 Volunteer Services (09/09/2020)
• 1.3.36a Post Trauma Response (11/29/2010)
• 1.3.38a Employee Searches (Restricted)
• 1.3.47 Call In/Off (01/04/2016)

Sec. 1: Building and Safety Codes

• 2.1.1a Lock Out/Tag Out (02/09/2012)
• 2.1.1b Contractor Entrance and Work Procedures (05/21/2013)
• 2.1.1c Contractor Code of Conduct (11/20/2014)

Sec. 1: Security and Control

• 3.1.1 Management of the Security Program (Restricted)
• 3.1.3 Logbooks (Under Review) 05/29/2011)
• 3.1.3a Visiting Logs (Under Review) (05/17/2011)
• 3.1.4 Perimeter Security (Restricted Access)
• 3.1.5 Entrance Procedures and Detainment of Non-Offenders (12/07/2020)
• 3.1.6 Control Center Operations (Restricted)
• 3.1.7 Emergency Equipment Armory Operations (Restricted)
• 3.1.7a Duress Alarm (Restricted)
• 3.1.8 Use of Force (Restricted)
• 3.1.8a Use of Chemical Agents & Oleoresin Capsicum (OC) (Restricted)
• 3.1.8B Taser Deployment (Restricted)
• 3.1.8c Crisis Intervention (11/30/2012)
• 3.1.8d Soft/Plastic Restraints (Restricted)
• 3.1.9 Air Handler Operations (11/29/2012)
• 3.1.9b Protective Masks (04/26/2013)
• 3.1.11 Daily Activities Schedule (Restricted)
• 3.1.11c Inmate Room/Pod Moves (10/01/2018)
• 3.1.12 Escorted Trips (09/29/2021)
• 3.1.13a Key Control (Key Watch) (Restricted)
• 3.1.13b Key in Use Report/Daily Key Inventory Report (Restricted)
• 3.1.14 Tool Control
• 3.1.14a Inmate Razor Pass (02/22/2013)
• 3.1.15 Security Inspections (Restricted)
• 3.1.15a Control Room Security Inspections (Restricted)
• 3.1.15b Chapel Security Inspections (Restricted)
• 3.1.15c Door Security Inspections (Restricted)
• 3.1.15d Intake Pod (D-Pod) Door Security Inspections (Restricted)
• 3.1.17 Searches and Contraband Control (Restricted)
• 3.1.17a Searches and Contraband Control (Building & Property) (Restricted)
• 3.1.17b Offender Pat/Strip Search (04/26/2013)
• 3.1.17c Contraband Shakedowns - Cells and Common Areas (05/23/2011)
• 3.1.20 Inmate Drug Testing Program (09/20/2022)
• 3.1.21 Offender Count and Supervision (Restricted)
• 3.1.21c Night Bed Checks (CENSUS) (Restricted)
• 3.1.24 Security Threat Group Identification and Management (01/04/2013)
• 3.1.28 Crime Scene And Physical Evidence Preservation (06/14/2012)
• 3.1.30 Inmate Escorted Leave (09/29/2021)
• 3.1.33 Radio/Telephone Communications (Restricted)
• 3.1.35 Body Scanner (09/29/2021)

Sec. 2: Safety and Emergency Procedures

• 3.2.1 Emergency Management (Restricted)
• 3.2.2 Fire and Life Safety (Restricted)

Sec. 3: Inmate Rights & Privileges

• 3.3.2a Inmate Photocopies and Indigent Typewriter Cassettes (09/10/2013)
• 3.3.5a Offender to Staff Requests (OSR) (10/02/2015)
• 3.3.7 Offender Access to Telephones (10/02/2015)
• 3.3.8 Offender Visiting (04/13/2011)
• 3.3.8a Family Day Activities (05/12/2017)
• 3.3.8b Child Visits (08/01/2025)
• 3.3.10 Offender Issued Tablets (03/14/2021)
• 3.3.21 Inmate Video Visitation (09/29/2021)

Sec. 4: Rules and Discipline

• 3.4.1 Institutional Discipline (04/08/2019)

Sec. 5: Special Management

• 3.5.1 Restrictive Housing (Restricted)
• 3.5.2 Block Management (Restricted)
• 3.5.5 Behavior Management Plan (09/09/2020)

Sec. 1: Reception and Orientation

• 4.1.1 Intake Process (09/30/2020)
• 4.1.3 Inmate Property (01/04/2019)
• 4.1.3a Outgoing Offender Packages (10/26/2012)
• 4.1.3b Property Shakedown/Inventory (10/22/2012)
• 4.1.3c Offender Room Lights & Bed Lamps (10/22/2012)
• 4.1.3d Offender Property Files (03/04/2011)
• 4.1.3e Inmate Property Process (10/26/2012)
• 4.1.3f Temporary Lockup Process (Restricted)
• 4.1.4 Indigent Status (05/01/2010)

Sec. 2: Classification

• 4.2.1 Inmate Classification System (Under Review) (01/04/2018)

Sec. 3: Food Service

• 4.3.1a General Food Service Operations (01/20/2012)
• 4.3.2 Menu Planning (07/13/2011)
• 4.3.2a Menu Planning/Special Diets (07/13/2011)
• 4.3.2b Menu Planning/Compliance and Record Keeping (01/20/2012)
• 4.3.3a Food Service Safety and Sanitation (01/20/2012)

Sec. 4: Sanitation and Hygiene

• 4.4.1 Offender Hygiene, Clothing, and Linen Supplies (03/02/2011)
• 4.4.1a Offender Laundry-Clothing/Linen Exchange (04/24/2012)
• 4.4.1b Offender Hair Cutting and Coloring (01/30/2014)
• 4.4.2a Offender Cleaning Crews - Night Shift (12/06/2012)

Sec. 5: Health Care

• 4.5.11a Infection Control - Exam Room (05/13/2013)
• 4.5.16a Patient Request Management (04/16/2013)
• 4.5.17a Medical Lay-In Procedure (05/21/2014)
• 4.5.20a Natural Disaster - Medical Department Procedure (05/13/2013)
• 4.5.20b Mass Casualty - Medical Department Procedure (05/13/2013)
• 4.5.20c Disturbances/Riots - Medical Department Procedure (05/13/2013)
• 4.5.20d Pandemic - Medical Department Procedure (05/31/2013)
• 4.5.23a Hospital Procedures (05/13/2013)
• 4.5.23b Inmate Childbirth (08/01/2025)
• 4.5.25b Medication Box Self-Administration System (09/01/2015)
• 4.5.34 Inmate Death (09/01/2020)
• 4.5.62 Suicide Prevention and Intervention (02/02/2023)

Sec. 6: Release/Placement

• 4.6.1a Offender Admission Discharge Report (ADR) (03/28/2012)
• 4.6.2a Offender Departure (05/13/2013)
• 4.7.100 Interstate Compact Transfers (02/02/2023)

Sec. 5: Recreation and Activities

• 5.1.1 Inmate Assignments (09/26/2022)
• 5.1.3 Inmate Community Work Program & Projects (06/12/2012)
• 5.4.1c Postal Meter Operations (05/22/2013)
• 5.4.3 Inmate Workplace Telephone Privileges (04/01/2016)
• 5.5.4 Hobby Crafts Program (05/07/2019)
• 5.5.4a Community Service Hobby Crafts Program (04/14/2014)
• 5.5.4b Offender Photos and Cards (03/21/2013)
• 5.5.1 Food Sales and Inmate Food Handouts (04/22/2018)
• 5.6.1 Religious Programming and Volunteer Activities (09/09/2020)
• 5.6.1a Religious Programs - Native American Programming (09/09/2020)