The Bail Project – Flathead Reservation serves people incarcerated in the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Judicial court system and the Lake County jail.
The pretrial population in Missoula County has tripled since 1970. The total jail population is five times the size it was in 1970.
Roughly 30 percent of the jail population in Missoula County has been identified as having a substance abuse or mental health issue.
There are four times as many Native Americans incarcerated in the Missoula County Jail than Native Americans in Missoula County.