Immigration lawyers accuse Vermont prisons of impeding their work

Lucian Nemoiu

Attorneys and volunteers with the Vermont Asylum Assistance Project used to go into Vermont’s prisons and meet with every immigration detainee, using their phones and computers for language interpretation, according to Jill Martin Diaz, executive director of the organization. But they say that access changed this fall after Jon Murad took over as interim commissioner of the Vermont Department of Corrections. Since then, attorneys with the organization said the department has made it harder to

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