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VT: Lawmakers' prison plans causing anxiety around Vermont

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Times Argus Lawmakers' prison plans causing anxiety around Vermont April 11, 2008 By Daniel Barlow Vermont Press Bureau MONTPELIER ­ If you ask Windsor Town Manager Mike Farrell about the massive prison reorganization plan moving through the Statehouse, he'll tell you he only knows only what he has read in the local newspaper. Farrell said he has not heard from any state officials regarding the plan to transform the town's Southeast State Correctional facility into an all-male work camp for inmates. And that has got him worried. "The selectboard really needs to be kept in the loop about this," Farrell said Thursday. "We need to know which direction the state is heading in this. But we haven't heard from them at all." As lawmakers continue working on a plan to cut prison costs by restructuring several facilities in Waterbury, Windsor and St...continue to full post

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