Can Electronic Monitoring Reduce Vermont’s Prison Population?
Tammie LaClair should be in prison. In September, she was arrested and charged with her fourth DUI. Because she was unwilling to post the $2,500 bail, the 47-year-old South Newfane resident was ushered to one of Vermont’s scarce inmate beds. But rather than live in prison, at the cost of $180 taxpayers’ dollars a day,…
