Ruling will aid Vermont inmates

The Vermont Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the state's inmates serving time in a Kentucky prison who want to use debit cards for telephone calls and get free postage stamps just like inmates in Vermont prisons."It's a good precedent if we're going to be sending Vermont offenders out of state they should be logically and common-sensically treated the same as inmates who are serving time in state," said Vermont Defender General Matthew Valerio. As of Friday when the ruling was issued, 573 Vermont inmates were housed in Kentucky to ease overcrowding in Vermont's prisons.

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