Growing demands, arrivals at all hours and a rare disease are just some of the challenges Vermont’s prisons have faced while ...

The wood shop at the Northern State Correctional Facility in Newport sits nearly empty on Thursday, Jan. 26. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger For years, incarcerated Vermonters have made furniture ...

WATERBURY, Vt. (WCAX) - Vermont Corrections officials say there are six new cases of COVID at the Northern State Correctional Facility in Newport. The new cases are in three staffers and three ...

He was placed at the Northern State Correctional Facility on Oct. 16, 2015. His maximum release date was May 20, 2032. Hughes, 32, was convicted of grand larceny and assault and robbery with a ...

Officials say VSP was notified Saturday morning that James Ingerson, a 54-year-old inmate at the Northern State Correctional Facility in Newport, had been found dead in his cell.

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - An outside legal review of the death of an inmate at the Northern State Correctional Facility is out, and recommends some changes to how the prison operates. The state has ...

The majority of cases are located at Northern State Correctional Facility. Since the pandemic began, roughly 2,600 incarcerated people have tested positive f the virus.

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — With Vermont's prison facilities aging, lawmakers are beginning to grapple with whether to build new or patch up the old. The state Department of Buildings and General ...

NEWPORT, Vt. (AP) — One hundred inmates and eight staff members at the Northern State Correctional Facility in Newport have tested positive for the virus that causes COVID-19, the largest ...

WATERBURY, Vt. (AP) — A coronavirus outbreak at a Vermont prison is growing, according to the state Department of Corrections. Nine new cases of COVID-19 were detected at the Northern State ...