Bill Schubart: Prison problems need creative solutions

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Bill Schubart, a regular commentator for Vermont Public Radio and a former board member of the Vermont Journalism Trust, the umbrella organization for VTDigger.org. This piece was first aired on VPR.
“Build it and they will come” is the oft-misquoted meme from the classic movie “Field of Dreams.” And in the case of the proposal by CoreCivic, a private prison firm, to build and lease back to the state a 925-bed prison in Franklin