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228 Vermont Inmates That Can't Be Housed In-State Are Moving to a New Prison

The Vermont Department of Corrections put out bids earlier this year for a new contract to house inmates that they say do not fit in Vermont's in-state facility.

By Elizabeth Murray

Vermont's out-of-state inmate population will have a new home next month. 

The approximately 228 inmates will be moving to a new facility in October after a three-year contract between Vermont's and Pennsylvania's departments of corrections dissolved early. Vermont was paying $7,095,600 per year, or about $72 per inmate each day. 

Vermont's inmates were mainly housed at SCI Camp Hill, which has traditionally been an intake facility in Pennsylvania, not a long-term housing facility, corrections officials have said.