Vaccination refusal rate among prisoners holds steady amid differing views
Syringes of COVID-19 vaccine are prepared for injection at Central Vermont Medical Center on Dec. 16, 2020.
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Steve Kinney, an imprisoned Vermont, took the COVID-19 vaccination shot and said he felt fine after.
Zachary Butts, who is also incarcerated, has not taken the shot, citing a distrust of the corrections system and a desire for more information, according to his fiancee Heather Bailey.
The two men are among more than 1,200 Vermont incarcerated individuals who have been offered the vaccine across the state’s correctional system, which is currently reporting a refusal rate of 34% (810 people who have gotten the shot; 421 have declined).
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.
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CoreCivic Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2020 Financial Results
CoreCivic, Inc.February 10, 2021 GMT
BRENTWOOD, Tenn., Feb. 10, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) CoreCivic, Inc. (NYSE: CXW) (the Company) announced today its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2020.
Financial Highlights – Full Year 2020
Total revenue of $1.91 billion
CoreCivic Safety revenue of $1.71 billion
CoreCivic Community revenue of $106.0 million
CoreCivic Properties revenue of $93.1 million
Net income attributable to common stockholders of $54.2 million
Diluted EPS per share of $0.45
Adjusted diluted EPS of $1.32
Normalized FFO per diluted share of $2.25
Adjusted EBITDA of $404.8 million
THE NUMBERS
The Vermont Department of Health reported 132 new cases of COVID-19 in the state over the past day. The reported total of 11,523 is 144 higher than the previous dayâs total. The department did not explain the discrepancy.
Twenty-eight of the new cases were in Bennington County, bringing the countyâs total to 1,004 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Bennington County continues to have the highest rate of COVID-19 among Vermont counties, at 281.8 cases per 10,000 residents. Chittenden County is second, at 241.6, while the rate in Windham County is 183.8.
Over the past two weeks, Bennington County has reported 302 new cases, and Windham County has reported 101. Chittenden County, Vermontâs largest county, has had 601 over the same period.
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BENNINGTON â Two men serving up to life in prison for child sex crimes have been resentenced after the Vermont Supreme Court found errors in their original sentencing proceedings.
The Bennington Superior criminal court has dismissed Richard McLauchlanâs conviction for aggravated sexual assault on a child under 13 years old after the Supreme Court ruled it should have been dismissed earlier. McLauchlan, 34, was sentenced 10 years to life for this felony in September 2019.
In March 2019, a jury found McLauchlan guilty of this offense and another felony, repeated aggravated sexual assault on a child, for which he was sentenced to 25 years to life. The prison times were to be served consecutively, which imposed on McLauchlan a minimum of 35 years in prison.