Northern State Correctional Facility

The estate of a Black man who died in custody at a Vermont prison is suing, alleging racism and negligence. The lawsuit, reported by VTDigger, was filed this week in Washington County Superior Court, alleging that the Vermont Department of Corrections and its agents negligently failed to diagnose and treat a tumor that led to Kenneth Johnson’s December 2019 death...

One hundred inmates and eight staff members at the Northern State Correctional Facility in Newport have tested positive for COVID-19, the largest outbreak at a Vermont correctional facility since the start of the pandemic, the commissioner for the Department of Corrections said. “It’s all hands on deck for our response,” Corrections Commissioner Jim Baker said in a statement Tuesday....

The Vermont Department of Corrections says an employee at the Newport prison has tested positive for COVID-19. The state says the worker did not have contact with inmates at the Northern State Correctional Facility and that no inmates have tested positive for the disease. Prison staff has cleaned the area where the staffer worked and increased messaging to staff and…

Court documents indicate an out-of-control bar patron hit a state trooper, threw food and a pool balls, threatened a person with a knife, and slashed tires.

Officials say a New Jersey man’s drunken apres ski in Vermont ended with him in the slammer for biting a state trooper.

Federal prosecutors say a prison guard used magic markers to hide drugs he smuggled into the Northern State Correctional Facility in Vermont.

Vermont officials announced the arrest and indictment of Jennifer Simard, 46, of Brownington, for the Murder of Kevin Smith.