Re: “Bennington Locks Up More People Than Any Other Vermont County”

What they don't mention is that police departments and Sheriff's get paid for keeping the correctional facility full. They get fines for not filling beds.

It's easy to look at the the socioeconomic situation, where the population is largely trained to do factory or assembly work and 95% of those jobs have gone out of state or country.

Non-violent drug offenders are easy catches and then in a county like Bennington where there is already enormous competition for jobs, you are at a disadvantage.
Jailing people takes a breadwinner from a family and puts the entire unit at risk from abuse from the community or system. The rise of for-profit prisons has destroyed the family unit through poverty.

The economic strain on the county has been the catalyst for much of this, add the heroin, and since the 1960's the CIA is responsible for 90% of the heroin distribution worldwide. The Mexican cartels work for the CIA. The war in Afghanistan is about heroin. The doctors in Vermont were giving it out freely in the pill form, and it got people hooked. The street drugs are cheaper, and dirtier. When people are out of work they are depressed. When people are poor, they get depressed. Then they get hurt doing odd jobs or physical work they are less used to, and the doctor gives you opiates for pain. This has been the set up for thousands of falls, not just in Bennington, but all over the country. The script pad gets them initiated and then the CIA makes sure the population has a steady supply.
It keeps your for-profit prisons full, CPS (another money maker) full, and your police and lawyers and their masonic friends fat and happy.