News Articles
Articles in the news
Key to Safer Vermont Lies Beyond Longer Sentences - Editorial in Burlington Free Press, 8/12/08
Prosecutors oppose long mandatory sentences - Rutland Herald, 8-9-08
In the wake of 12-year-old Brooke Bennett's death in Randolph, Vermont Public Radio's “Vermont Edition” took a closer look at Vermont's sex offender laws with guest, Bill Sorrell, Vermont's Attorney General, on Thursday, July 10th. It can be heard here on the VPR internet connection.
Help Closer to Home - Editorial in NYTimes, 7/11/08
Don't Teach Our Children Crime - Editorial in NYTimes, 7/3/08
Adam Liptak Series from the NY Times - What is unique within American Justice?
Missing Mothers - Article on incarcerated mothers in Burlington Free Press on Mother's Day, 2008
Cruel & Unusual History - (Article by Gilbert King in NYTimes on April 23, 2008, on the American Justice System)
Racial Inequality and Drug Arrests - Editorial in NY Times 5/10/08
(See NPR/Fresh Air - next story below)
The State of American Prisons
The United States is home to less than five percent of the world's population — and almost a quarter of the world's prisoners. Adam Liptak, national legal correspondent for The New York Times says that's one of the ways America's legal system differs from those of other countries.
Listen to the The NPR / Fresh Air broadcast of 5-8-08!
Other Things
Why do we lock up so many of our neighbors? - A sermon by Will Hunter presented at Springfield, VT UCC church on ???.