An effort to learn more about the workings of a private prison company that houses 600 Vermont inmates scored a key legal victory last week.
A Montpelier judge rejected a request by Corrections Corporation of America, which has been paid more than $70 million by the state since 2007, to dismiss a lawsuit that seeks to access records of its operations.
CCA had argued that since it is a private company, it should not be subject to Vermont’s public records law, which generally allows citizens to access records of government operations. The Vermont Department of Corrections, which has long grappled with a shortage of prison beds, sends long-term inmates to a CCA prison in Kentucky, among other prisons the company controls across the country.
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