Vermont Corrections Department braces for budget cuts

Andrew Pallito was named commissioner of the Vermont Corrections Department on the last day of 2008, a time when the department’s prison population was still expanding and the state’s financial picture was beginning to contract. Now, 18 months later, the collision between those two forces has Pallito and his 1,042-employee department up against a wall: In the coming year, he has to reduce his budget by $7 million to meet the cost-cutting mandates of the state’s Challenges for Change.

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