Two privately run prisons in running to replace Camp Hill

Laurel Harry, superintendent of the Pennsylvania state prison at Camp Hill, gives VTDigger a tour of the facility. Vermont inmates soon will be housed there. Photo by Jasper Craven/VTDigger
More than 250 Vermont prison inmates who have spent a troubled year in a Pennsylvania state prison appear likely to be moved to either Rhode Island or Mississippi by fall, according to a letter signed by Vermont Corrections Commissioner Lisa Menard.
Neither Menard nor Deputy Corrections Commissioner Mike Touc