Prison

Candidates for U.S. Senate, U.S. House and governor shared their campaign platforms with incarcerated Vermonters in a first-of-its-kind event at the Southern State Correctional Facility in Springfield.

Restorative justice is a process that focuses on the offender repairing the harm caused by their actions, and uses dialogue and empathy rather than punishment. Vermont's only women's prison has had restorative justice classes for the past few years.

A state office is requesting zoning changes in Essex to build a correctional facility and reentry unit on state-owned land to replace the only women's prison in Vermont.

There is double the amount of pending cases now than before the pandemic. That also means many people have remained detained without conviction.

CoreCivic, the largest private prison company in the country, was the sole bidder for the contract, according to the Vermont Department of Corrections.

Host Mikaela Lefrak talks with the heads of Vermont's departments of Health and Corrections and the defender general about health concerns in local prisons.

Last week, with little fanfare, a historic, livestreamed debate took place between a team of students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a team of residents from the Maine Department of Corrections.

It's been 20 years since the detention center at Guantanamo Bay opened on the coast of Cuba. And as we consider the last two decades and the controversial history of the prison, we're speaking with Vermonters who have had direct ties to it.

Vermont's state-run correctional facilities are only now beginning to lift pandemic restrictions that have been in place for the past two years. Vermont Edition host Connor Cyrus spoke with Seven Days reporter Derek Brouwer about his story profiling how state prisons have dealt with the pandemic.

Robert Davis' experience with the U.S. Parole Commission is an example of how systemic barriers can hold down people striving to do the right thing.