Jurisdictional complexities perpetuate the over-incarceration of Indigenous peoples in Montana

This month, the Montana Innocence Project will seek to explain some of the reasons Indidisproportionality make up our prison and jail populations with a series of stories published each week. Today’s story is about jurisdictional complexities.  At any given time, federal, state, local, and/or tribal criminal justice systems could have jurisdiction over an Indigenous person. … Continue reading Jurisdictional complexities perpetuate the over-incarceration of Indigenous peoples in Montana