Death by Privatization / For-profit prison healthcare system implicated in...
Source: By Terry J. Allen, In These Times, December 8, 2009 Ashley Ellis’s misdemeanor arrest turned into a death sentence. Her crime: “careless and negligent operation of a motor vehicle.” Less than...
View ArticleMontpelier council approves public safety issues
Source: Times Argus, November 15, 2011 At Wednesday’s meeting, the City Council agreed to cough up $15,000 and a town meeting day ballot item, which the Public Safety Committee requested. The Public...
View ArticleVt. lawsuit spotlights privatization versus access
Source: Dave Gram, Associated Press, June 12, 2013 A lawsuit by a Brattleboro publisher and the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont is raising a question about what happens to the idea of access...
View ArticleMoretown seeks remedy in host-town dispute with closed landfill
Source: VTDigger, September 18, 2013 The state’s environmental court ruled this week that the active portion of the Moretown Landfill must remained closed. The consent order handed down Tuesday affirms...
View ArticleVermont State Colleges balk at Sodexo’s proposed change of benefits /...
Source: Tim Johnson, Burlington Free Press, October 29, 2013 Sodexo’s plan to change benefits eligibility for many of its hourly employees has run into a roadblock at another institution where it has a...
View ArticleDepartment of Corrections and housing facility update auditor
Source: Keith Whitcomb Jr., Bennington Banner, November 6, 2013 The Department of Corrections and the company that manages one of its transitional housing facilities have updated the State Auditor on...
View ArticleLocked up and Shipped Away: Interstate Prisoner Transfers & the Private...
Source: Holly Kirby, Grassroots Leadership, November 18, 2013 …As part of the ongoing efforts to create truly just public safety policy, this report examines state governments’ practice of transferring...
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Out of Control: The Coast-to-Coast Failures of Outsourcing Public Services to...
Source: In The Public Interest, December 2013 From the abstract: Eager for quick cash, state and local governments across America have for decades handed over control of critical public services and...
View ArticleVermont Health Connect call center beefed up with out of state workers
Source: Associated Press, January 14, 2014 The administration of Gov. Peter Shumlin came under fire Tuesday for outsourcing jobs connected with the Vermont Health Connect insurance exchange — on the...
View ArticleCourt Rules Public Records Suit Against Prison Firm Can Proceed
Source: American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont, ACLU of Vermont blog, January 14, 2014 A state superior court has denied an attempt by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest...
View ArticleReality Has Turned the Tide Against Private Prisons
Source: Donald Cohen, Huffington Post, January 21, 2014 … Coast-to-coast, governments are realizing that outsourcing corrections to for-profit corporations is a bad deal for taxpayers, and for public...
View ArticleKy. prison with Vt. inmates no longer locked down
Source: Beth Garbitelli, Associated Press, February 24, 2014 A longer-than-usual lockdown ended earlier this month at a Kentucky prison housing inmates from Vermont and officials said there are plans...
View ArticleState Workers Union Alleges Retaliation By Management
Source: Peter Hirschfeld, VPR, April 9, 2014 John Howe has spent 18 years in state government helping disabled and financially needy clients find employment, medical care and shelter. He earned an...
View ArticleHouse lets school ‘flipping’ bill die
Source: Josh Ogorman, Times Argus, April 17, 2014 A bill that would have placed a moratorium on “flipping” public schools to private died on the House floor Wednesday amid an accusation of racist...
View ArticleVermont School Districts Consider Consolidation
Source: Jess Bidgood, New York Times, May 4, 2014 …. Vermont has more school districts than cities and towns, and a valued tradition of small-scale democracy. The last time there was a major overhaul...
View ArticleSTI wins 3 conversion contracts
Source: School Bus Fleet, July 8, 2014 Student Transportation Inc. (STI) has recently completed negotiations for the conversion of three school district transportation systems in Pennsylvania, Vermont...
View ArticleAdvocates renew push to keep inmates in VT
Source: Terri Hallenbeck, Free Press Staff, August 17, 2014 …. A group of advocates is making a push to halt the long trips, the separation of inmates from family and the use of a for-profit company to...
View ArticleVermont Lawmakers Quiz the State’s Private Prison Company
Source: MARK DAVIS, Seven Days, MON, OCT 20, 2014 A series of assaults last year inside a Kentucky prison that houses 400 Vermonters stemmed from a culture of drug use that involved prison guards and...
View ArticleManchester, Dorset may consolidate emergency services
Source: Associated Press, June 18, 2015 Two southern Vermont communities are considering consolidating police, fire and rescue services. Vermont Public Radio reports members of the Manchester and...
View ArticleInmate articulates concerns about conditions at Michigan Prison
Source: Elizabeth Hewitt, vtdigger.com, August 2, 2015 One month after Vermont inmates arrived at a privately run prison facility in northern Michigan, an inmate is voicing concerns about the...
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