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| Proposed VT DOC Plan To Save Millions |
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| Published: 01/26/2011 |
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MONTPELIER -- Three years ago, legislators directed the Douglas administration to reshuffle the state's prison population, closing the high-cost Waterbury prison that housed women, sending female inmates to St. Albans and dispersing elsewhere the men who had been housed there. Wednesday, newly elected Gov. Peter Shumlin proposed a new shuffle. He wants to move the women from St. Albans to the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington and house men in St. Albans, while also leasing some space there for federal detainees. Those moves, along with investments in prevention programs will save $7.5 million, Shumlin said. "These choices represent the first steps in my administration's war on recidivism," Shumlin said in his budget address Wednesday. Read More. |
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