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| Vt. sees decline in female inmates |
| By The Canadian Press |
| Published: 01/19/2009 |
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VERMONT - For about a month the status board at Northwest State Correctional Facility read zero. The last male inmates were gone, scattered among other Vermont prisons. This month, the prison that once held some of Vermont's most notorious criminals began housing the state's female inmates, women who are more likely to be behind bars for writing bad cheques than for sex crimes. But the prison, once Vermont's largest, is holding fewer women than previous trends had anticipated. About 140 beds will be empty, partly because fewer women are in prison. In the last two years, the number of female inmates in Vermont's prison system has dropped 40 per cent, thanks in part to programs specifically designed to keep them out of prison. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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