"The Tennessee location is far from ideal," [DG’s Matthew]Valerio said. "The complaints we hear (are) that there is no programming, no counseling, no industry and no education."
And yet some State officials and legislators insist we continue to farm our Vermont inmates out to these southern state warehouses. Might not be paying for that decision now, but we will be.
"The rich are not paying their fair share in any nation that is facing the kind of employment issues [America currently does] — whether it’s individual, corporate or whatever [form of] taxation forms," Clinton told an audience at the Brookings Institution.
"Disability Rights Vermont’s 23-page report about the death of Ashley Ellis found that miscommunications between the Department of Corrections and Prison Health Services — the private company contracted to provide health care in the state’s prisons at the time of Ellis’ death — along with other breakdowns in the system of care led to the 23-year-old’s death from a combination of hypokalemic-induced cardiac arrhythmia due to anorexia/bulimia nervosa and denial of medications to boost her potassium levels."
"What in the world were the budget writers thinking of? They were certainly not thinking about the dedicated employees of the state of Vermont. The union’s agreement to the reduction in pay came only after a great deal of arm twisting. Come to find out it was actually nothing but a shake down of the Vermont State Employees by the Douglas/Dubie administration with the approval of the Legislature to obtain money they did not need."