DOC points to difficulty of reentry from incarceration in Helena event

By: Jordan Hansen

Outlets: Daily Montanan

Published: April 20, 2026

Words: 694

Last Updated: 3 months, 1 week ago

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HELENA — For a little over an hour last week, Carson Woodland, a Realtor, was thrown into a different profession — pawn broker and short-term loan shark.

Woodland and a number of other participants associated with Helena’s Chamber of Commerce and Leadership Montana went through an incarcerated person reentry exercise hosted by Katie Weston, who is the Montana Women’s Prison warden.

The exercise involved playing the part of a person recently released from prison …

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