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One of the hardest-hit facilities is in Oakdale, La. "They feel like they're sitting ducks," says Arjeane Thompson, whose boyfriend is an inmate. And staff are working overtime under the strain.
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At a town hall on CNN last month, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was asked about whether he thinks felons should be allowed to vote, even while…
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In an effort to help the many Vermont inmates suffering from addiction before their release, a nonprofit in Rutland is trying something different:…
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Seventeen inmates were “sexually victimized” in Vermont prisons last year, according to a recently filed disclosure by the Vermont Department of…
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Just two years after Vermont's out-of-state prisoners were moved to a private facility in Michigan operated by GEO Group, they'll be on the move again.…
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Rockingham voters sent a clear signal that they did not want a proposed detention center in Bellows Falls.In a Town Meeting Day nonbinding referendum…
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A former paper mill in Bellows Falls might not be the best site for a proposed 150-bed detention center.During a recent inspection engineers discovered…
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Vermont sends nearly 500 prisoners to privately run out-of-state facilities in Kentucky and Arizona. The contract with the company that operates these…
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Vermont state Department of Corrections has beds for sixteen hundred inmates. But the prison population has remained higher than that for years, despite…