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Vt. readies for prison deal in Ala.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Nov 13, 2008 Vt. readies for prison deal in Ala. By Daniel Barlow Vermont Press Bureau MONTPELIER ? Vermont is poised to sign a contract with a new for-profit prison in Alabama, planning to relocate up to 80 of the state's prisoners. Vermont Department of Corrections Commissioner Robert Hofmann told lawmakers Wednesday that the new contract with LCS Corrections Services, Inc. will focus on offenders in prison who are "unacceptable to be placed with a majority of other prisoners." The agreement, which is yet to be finalized, would allow Vermont to send between 60 to 80 violent offenders to LCS Corrections' two-year-old Perry County Correctional Center, a 734-bed facility in Uniontown, Ala.. Hofmann said the new prison contract was not directly related to the massive reorganization of prisons here in Vermont, but instead because the state has been challenged over the last half-dozen years with offenders who are difficult to relocate...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 14, 2008 (boomark / email).