MONTPELIER, VT (AP)-- Less than a month after Vermont's out-of-state inmates were moved from a private prison in Kentucky to one in Michigan, conditions in the new facility already are drawing inmate complaints: smaller cells, no windows, less recreation and unattended medical concerns.
The complaints are detailed in a letter from inmate Shaun Bryer to Gordon Bock, head of the prison advocacy group Vermont CURE. Bryer wrote that he was responding to a request from Bock by collecting comments and concerns from inmates.
They were moved at the end of June from a Kentucky prison owned by the Corrections Corporation of America, to the North Lake Correctional Facility in Baldwin, Michigan, owned by another private prison firm, GEO Group Inc.
Officials say they expect many of the problems will be resolved soon.
