Vermonters for Criminal Justice Reform Fights to Bring Out-of-State Inmates...
Vermonters for Criminal Justice Reform’s Suzi Wizowaty joined VT Dept. of Corrections Commissioner Andy Pallito for an excellent talk on Vermont Public Radio about the use of out-of-state prison...
View ArticleVermont Spent $50,000 This Year Sending Prison Officials to Visit Inmates in...
It turns out that transferring prisoners to private institutions in other states doesn’t just enrich the industry and interfere with rehabilitation. Vermont’s Burlington Free Press reports that private...
View ArticleVermont Inmates Protest Out-of-State Incarceration at Arizona Private Prison
Twenty-eight prisoners from Vermont are being held out-of-state at the for-profit Florence Correctional Center in Arizona. At around noon on August 22nd, 13 of those 28 inmates began protesting. The...
View ArticlePrison News Round-up for Oct. 28, 2014
There are far too many stories out there that I want to write about, but I just don’t have the time to fully cover them. So occasionally I’ll be posting a collection of important stories from around...
View ArticleThousands of immigrant prisoners moved to undisclosed locations after...
Nearly three thousand immigrant prisoners are being transferred to undisclosed federal facilities after a two-day demonstration against indecent living conditions and medical care left the Willacy...
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