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VT: House Bill Begins Corrections' Transformation

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

The Senate Institutions Committee will include money in the proposed capital budget to pay for renovations needed if the department reorganizes how it used some prison space. A plan under consideration would move women out of the Dale Women's Facility in Waterbury and close it because it is the most expensive prison in the system. Women would be housed at the Northwest Regional Correctional Facility in St. Albans Town. The Southeast Correctional Facility in Windsor, which along with Dale houses female inmates, would become a large work camp." House bill begins corrections' transformation Burlington Free Press Published: Saturday, March 1, 2008 By Nancy Remsen Free Press Staff Writer MONTPELIER -- The House sent the Senate a bill Friday that's intended to spark a transformation in the way the state treats non-violent offenders, many of whom abuse drugs and alcohol...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 04, 2008 (boomark / email).