The Southern State Correctional Facility in Springfield in October 2024. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger After years of complaints from prison staff and incarcerated people about...
Rep. Alice Emmons, D-Springfield, chair of the House Corrections and Institutions Committee, works at her desk during lunch time at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Friday,...
For more than 35 years, on a forested road near the banks of the Winooski River, Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center housed some of Vermont’s most troubled...
It’s a slate-gray October day in Vermont, and Leon—middle-aged, balding, in work boots and a plaid shirt—sits inside a local community justice center, a low white-clapboard...