Before Newport police took Michael Cornell to prison, they brought him to the hospital. The 33-year-old was suspected of stealing $1,184 from a computer repair.
After graduating from Hartford High School in 1980, Bill Soule quickly concluded that college wasn’t for him.When he returned home after less than a year at what was then Lyndon State College in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, Soule’s father let him know.
For Jasmine Klein, life in Vermont's prisons has been a punishment beyond her sentence. Last November, Klein, a transgender woman, was transferred to Chittenden Regional.