Suzi Wizowaty, an elected member of the Vermont legislature, recently started an organization whose primary mission is to reduce the number of people in the state’s prisons. “We’re trying to create a movement,” she told the Valley Post on July 25. The new group’s web site is www.VermontersForCriminalJusticeReform.org.
More than 10 percent of the people in Vermont prisons are African American. Just 1 percent of people in Vermont are black.
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Published on July 27, 2013 06:00