Voters in a Vermont town will be casting ballots on Town Meeting Day on whether they support a plan by the county sheriff to convert an abandoned industrial building into a pretrial detention center.
Windham County Sheriff Keith Clark has a $23 million plan to renovate the building to hold prisoners before trial as well as provide transitional housing for up to 35 inmates.
Vermont Public Radio reports that the Rockingham select board finalized the March Town Meeting Day ballot to include the non-binding question of whether voters support the plan to renovate the building in the village of Bellows Falls so it could hold up to 155 inmates.
The building would also become home to the sheriff's department and provide office space for other law enforcement services.
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