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Vermont Prisoners Now In a CCA Prisons in TN & KY To Be Sent to the Greenfield (MA) Jail

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Vermont inmates headed for Mass. (for an aerial view of the Greenfield jail go to http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20100813/NEWS02/100812036/Vermont-inmates-headed-for-Mass#ixzz0wb8TV7fP) By Sam Hemingway, Burlington Free Press Staff Writer ? Friday, August 13, 2010 Up to 100 Vermont inmates will be transferred from out-of-state, privately run prisons in Kentucky and Tennessee to a publicly owned jail in Greenfield, Mass., under a contract signed this week between state officials and operators of the Massachusetts facility. Vermont Corrections Commissioner Andrew Pallito said Thursday the inmate transfers could begin within two weeks and will involve short-term prisoners who do not require programs to treat substance abuse, anger management or sexual-predator issues...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 14, 2010 (boomark / email).