Scott McMillion » Crime and the Justice System http://scottmcmillion.com Journalist, author of "Mark of the Grizzly," senior editor of Montana Quarterly Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:52:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 “Hope at the End of A Rope” http://scottmcmillion.com/2010/12/hope-at-the-end-of-a-rope/ http://scottmcmillion.com/2010/12/hope-at-the-end-of-a-rope/#comments Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:41:58 +0000 Scott http://scottmcmillion.com/?p=885 By Scott McMillion
Photography by Thomas Lee
Montana Quarterly
Fall 2010

Montana Ranch Helping Kids No One Else Wants

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Montana Quarterly
Summer, 2009
Photography by Thomas Lee.

A sloppy defense and shoddy science cost Jimmy Ray Bromgard 15 years of his life after he was put in prison for a terrible crime he didn’t commit.

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By Scott McMillion
NewWest.net
Sept. 26, 2008

Think about wildfire in the West and it’s hard to picture a rosy future, except for the sunsets bleeding through the smoke.
Climate change, spreading subdivisions, a scarcity of skilled fire bosses, and the threat of legal action against firefighters if things go awry all combine to create dark and smoky prospects.

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Montana Quarterly
Winter 2007
Photography by Thomas Lee.

Faced with an explosion of meth use, Montana and its new, unconventional treatment program aim to block the revolving door of addiction, crime and imprisonment — and to just maybe repair some lives.

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Montana Quarterly

Summer 2007

Photography by Thomas Lee.

Asbestos finally took him, but not before Les Skramstad left his mark on the world.

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Bozeman Daily Chronicle
April 14, 2005

Wayne Skertich was a builder by trade, but music was his passion. With it, he made friends around the world. With his fiddle and piano, his bass and guitar, he spread a lot of joy, lifted a lot of spirits.

On Saturday morning, at 2 a.m., after police had surrounded his home for 26 hours, after close friends and his wife had pleaded with him to come outside, he put his gun to his head and the music was over.

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