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Vermont’s Policy of Sending Prisoners Out-of-State Found Unconstitutional
Loaded on Feb. 2, 2016
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2016, page 50
Filed under:
Out of State Transfers,
GEO Group/Wackenhut,
Gender Discrimination -- Men,
Overcrowding,
Fathers in Prison,
Children of Prisoners.
Location:
Vermont.
A Vermont Superior Court held the policy of the Vermont Department of Corrections (VDOC) to send hundreds of male prisoners to out-of-state facilities, regardless of whether they have close bonds with their young children, while keeping all women prisoners at in-state facilities, violates the equal protection clause and common benefits ...
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