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| Officials: No overcrowding concerns for Vermont inmates in PA |
| By burlingtonfreepress.com- Elizabeth Murray |
| Published: 05/26/2017 |
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Pennsylvania inmate advocates and the state's Department of Corrections say there is no immediate danger of overcrowding in the prisons at which Vermont's out-of-state inmates will be housed. Criminal justice advocates and parents of inmates expressed concern because the website for the Pennsylvania facilities where Vermont inmates will be housed show they are at more than 100 percent of their "operational capacities" as of April 30. A lawyer involved with Pennsylvania inmate issues said a bill in Pennsylvania's legislature, if passed, could also mean tighter quarters if it reinstates mandatory minimum sentences for some drug and violent crimes. Lawyer Angus Love, executive director of the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project, said this week that in the past few years, criminal justice reforms have helped slightly lower Pennsylvania's inmate population. Read More. |
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