Yellowstone County Detention Facility

County leadership say they’re optimistic about their pitch to voters to expand the overcrowded Yellowstone County Detention Facility and fund its operation, despite an election season where a lot of people are tightening their purse strings.

Voters in November will see a jail bond and levy on their ballots after years of the county sounding the alarm about overcrowding.

More than a dozen new cases of the COVID-19 illness in Montana can be traced to two separate cluster outbreaks in Yellowstone and Big Horn counties,…