May 27, 2004

Yahoo! News - Report: 1 of Every 75 U.S. Men in Prison

"The inmate population in 10 states increased at least 5 percent. Some of the smallest state prison systems saw the largest increase: Vermont's grew by 12.2 percent, Minnesota was up 9.4 percent and Maine 9.1 percent."

This unsustainable rate of increase must be due to sentencing and we cannot afford it. One more instance of Vermont's 'capacity problem.'

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