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VT May Make Women's Prison Men's
By necn.com
Published: 01/26/2011

ST. ALBANS, Vt. (AP) — Two years after it was converted to a women-only prison, Northwest State Correctional Facility in St. Albans could be returning to its former status.

Gov. Peter Shumlin wants to move the women now being held there to the Chittenden Regional Correctional Center, in South Burlington, and move men back in.

He says that will help maximize bed space — there are currently about 60 unused beds at the prison — and allow the state to return some inmates being held in out-of-state prisons and lease the rest to the federal government.

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