Montana Women's Prison Procedures

Chapter 1: Administration and Management

Sec. 1: General Administration

1.1.6 Priority Incident Reporting & Acting Director (Restricted)

1.1.10 Facility Tours

1.1.14 Safety Inspections (Restricted)

1.1.17 Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA)

Sec. 2: Fiscal Management

1.2.10 Canteen

1.2.12 Inmate Welfare Accounts

1.2.14a Travel, per diem, and pay while attending CDOB

1.3.1 Confidential Reports (Restricted)

1.3.16 Volunteer Services

1.3.36a Post Trauma Response

1.3.38a Employee Searches (Restricted)

1.3.47 Call in/off

Chapter 2: Physical Plant

Sec. 1: Building and Safety Codes

2.1.1a Lock Out/Tag Out

2.1.1b Contractor Entrance and Work Procedures

2.1.1c Contractor Code of Conduct

Chapter 3: Institutional Operations

Sec. 1: Security and Control

3.1.1 Management of the Security Program (Restricted)

3.1.3 Logbooks (Under Review)

3.1.3a Visiting Logs (Under Review)

3.1.4 Perimeter Security (Restricted Access)

3.1.5 Entrance Procedures and Detainment of Non-Offenders

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

3.1.8d Soft/Plastic Restraints (Restricted)

3.1.9 Air Handler Operations

3.1.9b Protective Masks

3.1.11 Daily Activities Schedule (Restricted)

3.1.11c Inmate Room/Pod Moves

3.1.12 Escorted Trips

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

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

3.1.17c Contraband Shakedowns - Cells and Common Areas

3.1.20 Inmate Drug Testing Program

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

3.1.28 Crime Scene And Physical Evidence Preservation

3.1.30 Inmate Escorted Leave

3.1.33 Radio/Telephone Communications (Restricted)

3.1.35 Body Scanner

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

3.3.5a Offender to Staff Requests (OSR)

3.3.7 Offender Access to Telephones

3.3.8 Offender Visiting

3.3.8a Family Day Activities

3.3.8b Parenting Program - Child Visits

3.3.10 Offender Issued Tablets

3.3.21 Inmate Video Visitation

Sec. 4: Rules and Discipline

3.4.1 Institutional Discipline

Sec. 5: Special Management

3.5.1 Restrictive Housing (Restricted)

3.5.2 Block Management (Restricted)

3.5.5 Behavior Management Plan

Chapter 4: Institutional Services

Sec. 1: Reception and Orientation

4.1.1 Intake Process

4.1.3 Inmate Property

4.1.3a Outgoing Offender Packages

4.1.3b Property Shakedown/Inventory

4.1.3c Offender Room Lights & Bed Lamps

4.1.3d Offender Property Files

4.1.3e Inmate Property Process

4.1.3f Temporary Lockup Process (Restricted)

4.1.4 Indigent Status

Sec. 2: Classification

4.2.1 Inmate Classification System (Under Review)

Sec. 3: Food Service

4.3.1a General Food Service Operations

4.3.2 Menu Planning

4.3.2a Menu Planning/Special Diets

4.3.2b Menu Planning/Compliance and Record Keeping

4.3.3a Food Service Safety and Sanitation

Sec. 4: Sanitation and Hygiene

4.4.1 Offender Hygiene, Clothing, and Linen Supplies

4.4.1a Offender Laundry-Clothing/Linen Exchange

4.4.1b Offender Hair Cutting and Coloring

4.4.2a Offender Cleaning Crews - Night Shift

Sec. 5: Health Care

4.5.11a Infection Control - Exam Room

4.5.16a Patient Request Management

4.5.17a Medical Lay-In Procedure

4.5.20a Natural Disaster - Medical Department Procedure

4.5.20b Mass Casualty - Medical Department Procedure

4.5.20c Disturbances/Riots - Medical Department Procedure

4.5.20d Pandemic - Medical Department Procedure

4.5.23a Hospital Procedures

4.5.23b Parenting Program Notification Procedure

4.5.25b Medication Box Self-Administration System

4.5.34 Inmate Death (Restricted)

4.5.62 Suicide Prevention and Intervention

Sec. 6: Release/Placement

4.6.1a Offender Admission Discharge Report (ADR)

4.6.2a Offender Departure

4.7.100 Interstate Compact Transfers

Chapter 5: Inmate Programs

Sec. 5: Recreation and Activities
5.1.1 Inmate Assignments
5.1.3 Inmate Community Work Program & Projects
5.4.1c Postal Meter Operations
5.4.3 Inmate Workplace Telephone Privileges
5.5.4 Hobby Crafts Program
5.5.4a Community Service Hobby Crafts Program
5.5.4b Offender Photos and Cards
5.5.1 Food Sales and Inmate Food Handouts
5.6.1 Religious Programming and Volunteer Activities
5.6.1a Religious Programs - Native American Programming

MWP Procedures

Chapter 1: Administration and Management

Chapter 2: Physical Plant

Chapter 3: Institutional Operations

Chapter 4: Institutional Services

Chapter 5: Inmate Programs

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