Updated on December 23, 2020 at 6:06 pm
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Vermont state officials are vowing to make conditions safe for women serving prison time and for those who work in correctional facilities.
The push follows the release of an independent review Wednesday that found a troubling number of sexual misconduct claims associated with the state s female prison. One incident is too many, said Tris Coffin, an attorney with the firm Downs Rachlin Martin, which was hired by the Vermont Agency of Human Serves to review Vermont s only women s prison.
Coffin said the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington had an alarmingly high number of claims of sexual harassment or assault in recent years, along with abuses of power. These have harmed both inmates and female employees of the facility, the report noted.
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