Timothy Burgess: Stop the mega prison

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Timothy R. Burgess, of Waterville, a former inmate of the Vermont Department of Corrections in a Corrections Corporation of America facility. He is a prisoner advocate and the vice president of the United States Prisoners Rights Defense League.I fail to see how any state agency or entity can consider engaging in a contract with a for-profit prison entity, even for a moment. The very premise that in Vermont we have utilized the services of these money-hu