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The Joint Fiscal Office will do a complete evaluation of the state’s prison health care system.A report last year by the Pew Charitable Trusts found that…
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State officials met Tuesday with prospective bidders looking to house out-of-state inmates. In February, the Scott administration announced plans to…
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Key legislative leaders say a new proposal by the Scott Administration to build a multi-purpose 925-bed prison in Franklin County is an ambitious plan…
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Earlier in June, 269 Vermont inmates moved from a private prison in Michigan to a Pennsylvania prison called Camp Hill, but the unit they were placed in…
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Vermont is taking a hard look at how it treats people with mental illness in its prisons.Earlier this year lawmakers put a committee together to make…
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A local attorney is asking that Windham County Sheriff Keith Clark release an engineering report on the building where he wants to build a detention…
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A proposal by the Shumlin administration to drastically cut funding to high school programs for inmates is raising concerns inside prison classrooms.…
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Over 7,000 Vermont children have parents who are incarcerated, and only about a third of them visit their mothers and fathers in jail.That and other…
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Many of the people sent to state prison would qualify for Medicaid under the new Federal expansion of the Affordable Care Act. But, by law, once someone…