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Vermont Inmates Voice Complaints About New Michigan Prison
By cbslocal.com
Published: 07/31/2015

BALDWIN, Mich. (AP) – Less than a month after Vermont’s out-of-state inmates were moved from a private prison in Kentucky to one in Michigan, prisoner complaints range from limited TV programming to unattended medical concerns.

The complaints, detailed in a letter from inmate Shaun Bryer to Gordon Bock, head of the prison advocacy group Vermont CURE, also include “no premium movie channel,” smaller cells, no windows, less recreational time and no privacy in the showers.

Bryer, a former school teacher, said he was responding to a request from Bock for comments and concerns from inmates. “Believe me, we have a lot of them,” he wrote.

The 280 Vermont inmates were moved at the end of June from a Kentucky prison to the North Lake Correctional Facility in Baldwin, Michigan, owned by the private prison firm, GEO Group Inc.

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