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Activists Protest New Prisons

By Eesha Williams

Northampton, MA – There were 2.1 million people in American prisons last year, up from the year before. In western Massachusetts, activists are protesting the construction of two new jails that will cost more than $50 million. And in Vermont, the state legislature is debating a plan to lower that state's prison population. WAMC's Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Eesha Williams reports.