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The firm will help develop a process for making the findings of investigations public, the department said. The firm will also review ongoing death investigations.

Emboldened by supermajorities in both chambers and a “sea change” in public opinion, Democrats and Progressives in the Vermont Statehouse carried three significant pieces of firearms legislation across the finish line this legislative session.It was,...

This legislative session saw three firearms bills cross the finish line. But with a new legal test throwing gun control laws — old and new — into question, will they stick?

Any vote for H.230 ignores constitutional implications, puts citizens who wish to defend themselves at risk, and will cost the state (that is, Vermonters) money to defend laws that will not pass constitutional muster.

Witnesses incarcerated near David Mitchell at the Springfield prison have said he begged for medical attention on the day he died. Spurred by his death, advocates gathered in Montpelier to highlight the poor conditions in Vermont’s prisons.

On April 28, a judge in the Southern District of Illinois, in the case of Barnett v. Raoul, issued a preliminary injunction against the enforcement of the recently-passed Protect Illinois

On April 28, a judge in the Southern District of Illinois, in the case of Barnett v. Raoul, issued a preliminary injunction against the enforcement of the recently-passed Protect Illinois

A total of five people who were incarcerated near David Mitchell have now described him pleading for medical care before he died at Southern State Correctional Facility. Spurred by his death, prisoners’ rights advocates are planning a protest in front...

David Mitchell died at Southern State Correctional Facility in Springfield. Five witnesses said he repeatedly pleaded for medical help the day of his death.

Preston Lawson was staying in the cell next to 46-year-old David Mitchell, who died at Southern State Correctional Facility on Monday. Lawson said despite Mitchell’s pleas for help with breathing problems and interaction with medical staff, his requests to go to the hospital were ignored.