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Vermont representatives call for embattled Windsor County Sheriff Ryan Palmer to step down ...

A Bennington man who was convicted in 2019 of repeated sexual assault of a child and other related charges was recently found unresponsive in a Mississippi jail cell.

The homesteading pros at Gold Shaw Farm explain how they accidentally ruined a perfectly good farm.

Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani tapped a convicted robber to run New York City’s troubled jail system. Stanley Richards, 64, ...

The socialist pol announced five key appointments to his administration during a Bronx press conference Saturday, most notably Stanley Richards, who will become the first formerly incarcerated person ...

Titus Peters, a 42-year-old man from Bennington, was serving time in Mississippi for crimes he committed in Vermont.

Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Department of Corrections (DOC) today announced the death of Titus Peters, a sentenced person incarcerated at Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility (TCCF) in ...

A Twin State fugitive who was given a suspended sentence in a 2023 Littleton stabbing case, then repeatedly fled probation ...

Rikers Island's new remediation manager, who was named on Tuesday, will have authority even beyond that of the city’s correction commissioner to push forward reforms — in an appointment that marks one ...

A onetime CIA officer and former Vermont corrections commissioner, Deml was selected by Judge Laura Taylor Swain to implement sweeping jail reforms.

Nicholas Deml, former CIA and Vermont official, is appointed as Rikers Island's new remediation manager with significant reform authority.