Timothy Burgess: Prisoners in Pennsylvania is not the solution

Vermont inmates are now going to Pennsylvania. That’s good news … or is it? Vermont recently signed a three-year contract with the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections to house Vermont inmates. We get to add more inmates to the out-of-state warehousing program, though we’ve been assured that won’t happen. So now we no longer will be relying on the insidious private prison system, and our inmates are going to be housed closer to home. Vermont is falling in line with the