Planning & Projects
- Strategic Plans
- Prescription Drug Monitoring Program
- Jail Overcrowding - Offender Management
Montana’s jails, detention facilities and prisons continue to operate at or beyond capacity. Local law enforcement and other criminal justice system stakeholders have asked MBCC to facilitate the state’s strategic response to overcrowding. After detailed consideration of the issue, MBCC decided to develop a repository to collect data from the state’s jails. This data is critical to gaining insight and hopefully an understanding of the jail overcrowding problem. We can use this data to analyze what is causing the overcrowding of jails. In essence, we will be able to know, in a broad sense, who is being housed in county and local jails and why. This data will be used to inform policy makers and help them decide how to deal with the issue.
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- Crime Prevention
- Tribal Lands Crime Data Collection
In the spring of 2005, the Montana Board of Crime Control’s Statistical Analysis Center set out to collect crime statistics on tribal lands in the Northwest, Region 5. Through a cooperative partnership with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and Tribal Law Enforcement Agencies, the Board of Crime Control collected tribal crime data over a three year period (2004-2006).
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- SAMHSA Meth Project
Prescription drug abuse comprises almost one-third of drug abuse in the United States, now the fourth most abused drugs behind only marijuana, alcohol and tobacco. Misuse, abuse, and illegal sale of prescriptions drugs are a threat to patient and public safety in Montana. A stakeholder group has been convened by the Montana Board of Pharmacy and Montana Board of Crime Control to study the issue in our state.
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MONTANANS
SUPPORT RETURN OF CRIME PREVENTION PROGRAMS...
The Montana Board of Crime Control has been asked to explore the possibility
of bringing the National Crime Prevention Council’s initiatives
back to the State. Over the next few months MBCC will be surveying all
law enforcement agencies to determine feasibility and to get a snapshot
of what programs communities and law enforcement agencies in Montana
feel are most critical, i.e. school violence, bullying etc.
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