Prison superintendent on leave amid misconduct probe
Details are scarce about the investigation into alleged conduct of Southern State Correctional superintendent Mike Lyon.
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Details are scarce about the investigation into alleged conduct of Southern State Correctional superintendent Mike Lyon.
“These rates of overdose deaths will not change unless we change how we are responding to them,” said state Sen. Tanya Vyhovskyl, P/D-Chittenden Central. “Continuing to do the same thing that we have done while expecting a different result is not only ridiculous, it is cruel.”
The department announced a new three-year contract with the company Wellpath after its contract with VitalCore Health Strategies expires at the end of June. The state previously contracted with Wellpath when it operated under the name Correct Care Solutions.
Labor’s reconciliation envoy has called out inaction from the Albanese government, demanding immediate steps to address Indigenous deaths in custody.
The cover-ups began immediately following Veronica Nelson’s death and continued for years after, even while the coronial inquest into her passing was under way.