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Convicted felony offenders cost Montana taxpayers an average of $65.21-$70.20 per day while being held in county jails in FY 2012.
Total number of Sexual or Violent Offender Registry registrants as of October 29, 2014 was 5,711.
24.5% of high school respondents rode with a driver who had been drinking alcohol (in past 30 days).

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Offender Population Rates by County - Per 1,000 Residents

Offender Population Rates by County: Determining offender population rates for Montana counties provides an analysis that corrects for population variances among the counties. For FY 2013-2014, Eastern Montana’s Dawson County joined Western Montana counties Lake, Mineral and Powell, and the Hi-Line’s Hill County, in contributing offenders at rates of 20 or more offenders per 1,000 residents.

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Montana Department of Corrections, 2014

County Contributions to Offender Population - June 30, 2014

County Contributions to Offender Population: Montana’s most-populous counties contribute the largest number of offenders to the corrections system. As in the previous biennium, the five counties with the largest population were responsible for 58% of all offenders counted in mid-2014. The other 51 counties combined sent 42% of offenders.

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Montana Department of Corrections, 2014

County of Sentence

Statewide

	Inmates	Offenders in Alternate Facility	Offenders in Prerelease	of Offenders on P&P Supervision	All Active DOC Offenders	Number Per 1000 County Population	County Population on July 1 2012
MT	2,609	997	886	10,194	14,686	14.8%	990,898

Selected Counties

Counties

County	Inmates	Offenders in Alternate Facility	Offenders in Prerelease	of Offenders on P&P Supervision	All Active DOC Offenders	Number Per 1000 County Population	County Population on July 1 2012
Beaverhead	14	7	3	114	138	14.9%	9,253
Big Horn	21	17	113	14	165	12.8%	12,914
Blaine	7	2	4	30	43	6.6%	6,507
Broadwater	13	3	47	0	63	11.2%	5,629
Carbon	15	9	1	75	100	9.9%	10,085
Carter	0	1	4	0	5	4.3%	1,154
Cascade	284	78	84	981	1,427	17.5%	81,519
Chouteau	7	3	23	2	35	6.0%	5,803
Custer	52	16	13	140	221	18.9%	11,703
Daniels	0	0	5	0	5	2.8%	1,758
Dawson	28	11	5	104	148	16.6%	8,936
Deer Lodge	26	12	77	5	120	12.9%	9,294
Fallon	3	2	2	23	30	10.4%	2,887
Fergus	23	6	87	6	122	10.5%	11,582
Flathead	231	115	106	1,235	1,687	18.6%	90,901
Gallatin	121	50	626	35	832	9.3%	89,658
Garfield	0	0	0	7	7	5.9%	1,192
Glacier	17	6	80	9	112	8.3%	13,451
Golden Valley	0	1	2	3	6	6.8%	884
Granite	1	1	15	1	18	5.8%	3,082
Hill	74	24	43	192	333	20.6%	16,152
Jefferson	15	6	71	6	98	8.6%	11,424
Judith Basin	1	0	0	11	12	5.8%	2,068
Lake	126	53	432	49	660	22.9%	28,766
Lewis and Clark	184	95	85	877	1,241	19.5%	63,620
Liberty	2	0	6	0	8	3.4%	2,344
Lincoln	57	12	18	194	281	14.3%	19,670
Madison	8	7	0	47	62	8.1%	7,691
McCone	2	1	21	0	24	13.8%	1,741
Meagher	2	1	12	1	16	8.5%	1,887
Mineral	22	8	2	72	104	24.7%	4,219
Missoula	358	127	1,396	106	1,987	18.1%	109,494
Musselshell	8	7	5	61	81	17.8%	4,560
Park	23	6	105	4	138	8.8%	15,608
Petroleum	1	0	0	5	6	12.1%	495
Phillips	6	1	23	1	31	7.3%	4,249
Pondera	5	7	5	34	51	8.3%	6,160
Powder River	1	0	5	0	6	3.4%	1,741
Powell	58	11	5	64	138	19.7%	7,022
Prairie	2	1	7	0	10	8.4%	1,189
Ravalli	132	38	32	390	592	14.7%	40,308
Richland	21	12	126	10	169	17.3%	9,759
Roosevelt	5	4	3	57	69	6.6%	10,453
Rosebud	23	8	95	4	130	14.0%	9,254
Sanders	31	6	7	74	118	10.4%	11,382
Sheridan	5	1	25	0	31	9.2%	3,377
Silver Bow	91	27	28	290	436	12.7%	34,234
Stillwater	16	5	67	4	92	10.1%	9,121
Sweet Grass	4	0	2	20	26	7.2%	3,622
Teton	9	2	48	1	60	9.9%	6,081
Toole	21	3	2	44	70	13.1%	5,337
Treasure	0	0	9	0	9	12.6%	713
Valley	19	6	3	55	83	11.3%	7,359
Wheatland	4	0	10	0	14	6.5%	2,166
Wibaux	0	0	0	7	7	6.9%	1,008
Yellowstone	410	178	1,453	168	2,209	14.9%	148,432

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Montana Department of Corrections

Sexual or Violent Offender Registry (SVOR)

Created by the Montana Department of Justice in 1989, the Sexual or Violent Offender Registry (SVOR) is a valuable resource for Montanans to protect their families against sexual or violent offenders. Information can be accessed in more specific geographies, e.g. counties, towns and streets.

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Sexual or Violent Offenders - Percent of Population By County

Statewide

	Total Population	Offender Population	Percent of Total Population
MT	989,415	5,730	0.00579

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Counties

County	Total Population	Offender Population	Percent of Total Population
Beaverhead	9,246	0.00227%	21
Big Horn	124	0.00964%	12,865
Blaine	6,491	0.00709%	46
Broadwater	33	0.00588%	5,612
Carbon	10,078	0.00258%	26
Carter	4	0.00345%	1,160
Cascade	81,327	0.00791%	643
Chouteau	21	0.00361%	5,813
Custer	11,699	0.00462%	54
Daniels	3	0.00171%	1,751
Dawson	8,966	0.00602%	54
Deer Lodge	102	0.01097%	9,298
Fallon	2,890	0.00208%	6
Fergus	50	0.00432%	11,586
Flathead	90,928	0.00356%	324
Gallatin	203	0.00227%	89,513
Garfield	1,206	0.00083%	1
Glacier	120	0.00896%	13,399
Golden Valley	884	0.00566%	5
Granite	9	0.00292%	3,079
Hill	16,096	0.00826%	133
Jefferson	44	0.00386%	11,406
Judith Basin	2,072	0.00145%	3
Lake	165	0.00574%	28,746
Lewis and Clark	63,395	0.00615%	390
Liberty	3	0.00128%	2,339
Lincoln	19,687	0.00452%	89
Madison	7,691	9.10155%	14
McCone	7	8.07382%	1,734
Meagher	4	0.00212%	1,891
Mineral	4,223	0.00829%	35
Missoula	718	0.00657%	109,299
Musselshell	4,538	0.00507%	23
Park	44	0.00281%	15,636
Petroleum	494	0.00000%	0
Phillips	14	0.00329%	4,253
Pondera	6,153	0.00276%	17
Powder River	1	0.00057%	1,743
Powell	7,027	0.00527%	37
Prairie	3	0.00254%	1,179
Ravalli	40,212	0.00438%	176
Richland	55	0.00564%	9,746
Roosevelt	10,425	0.01257%	131
Rosebud	76	0.00823%	9,233
Sanders	11,413	0.00491%	56
Sheridan	15	0.00443%	3,384
Silver Bow	34,200	0.00994%	340
Stillwater	18	0.00197%	9,117
Sweet Grass	3,651	0.00164%	6
Teton	12	0.00198%	6,073
Toole	5,324	0.00394%	21
Treasure	2	0.00279%	718
Valley	7,369	0.00448%	33
Wheatland	7	0.00323%	2,168
Wibaux	1,017	0.00492%	5
Yellowstone	1,184	0.00800%	147,972

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High School Youth Risk Behavior Survey

Statewide

Question	Affirmative Response Percent
Drive when drinking alcohol (in past 30 days)	12.6%
Rode with a driver who had been drinking alcohol (in past 30 days)	24.5%
Carried a weapon on school property (in past 30 days)	9.9%
Ever tried cigarette smoking	41.1%
Ever used marijuana	37.6%
Ever took prescription drugs without a doctor’s prescription	16.2%

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Montana Office of Public Instruction, 2013 Youth Risk Behavior Survey

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