The Vermont Senate on Wednesday gave preliminary approval to a bill that would prohibit life-without-parole sentences for most murder cases. The vote was 21 to…
The guards at Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington knew that Veronica Lewis could be violent. In the first three months she was…
Lawmakers have spent years debating how to house all of Vermont's prisoners within its borders. But two decades after the state began outsourcing incarceration,…
When Nora Tucker, a seventh grader at Wolf Creek Middle School, begins her summer vacation by compiling students' submissions to a community time-capsule project,…
Chittenden County State's Attorney Sarah George wants Vermont to establish supervised heroin-injection sites. She has signed off on expunging more than 100 criminal records,…
T.J. Donovan, Vermont's Democratic attorney general, couldn't help but take control last month at a Statehouse ceremony to sign a new law limiting President…
High-profile killings of law enforcement officers and citizens have roiled the country and intensified the debate about police relations with minorities. And while Vermont…
Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) touted their efforts to reduce incarceration and reform the criminal justice system during a forum at Burlington…
As an artist with no legal background, State Rep. Mollie Burke (P/D-Brattleboro) seems an unlikely candidate to spearhead criminal-justice reform. But after attending a…
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