The state could save money, and treat prisoners more humanely if it coverted part of the former Supermax in Boscobel into a standard maximum security prison. That’s the proposal of the federal monitor who ovsersees the terms of a lawsuitBocobel inmates won 3 years ago against the state. Gil Halsted reports…
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