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Billings has dealt with jail overcrowding before. A riot helped create today's facility

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Yellowstone County voters have approved a jail bond once before, in 1984, but only after a jail riot, a lawsuit and an intervention by the federal courts.

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Billings has dealt with jail overcrowding before. A riot helped create today's facility

Yellowstone County voters have approved a jail bond once before, in 1984, but only after a jail riot, a lawsuit and an intervention by the federal courts.

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The Billings Gazette broke the news in Billings, United States on Saturday, August 15, 2026.
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