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Special Report: A visit to Block J, Vermont inmates’ new home
By vtdigger.org- Jasper Craven
Published: 06/12/2017

CAMP HILL, Pa. — Dotted throughout the prison where some 269 Vermont inmates will arrive any day are posters reading “Hope is real, help is real.”

When the inmates — who are being moved from a prison in Michigan — arrive at the barbed wire gates of SCI Camp Hill in south-central Pennsylvania, they will have any number of adjustments to make.

“There’s a lot of nervousness for the inmates,” said Mike Touchette, Vermont’s director of correctional facilities. “Not knowing exactly what Pennsylvania looks like and how they operate creates anxiety and stress.”

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