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Seven Days reporter on the human cost of COVID in Vermont's prisons

A chain-link fence looks out on a cold winter landscape from inside Northwest State Correctional Facility.
Toby Talbot
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Associated Press File
Northwest State Correctional Facility, shown in this 2008 file photo, is featured in a Seven Days article by Derek Brouwer about the human cost of fighting COVID-19 in Vermont's prisons.

Vermont's state-run correctional facilities are only now beginning to lift pandemic restrictions that have been in place for the past two years. Vermont Edition host Connor Cyrus spoke with Seven Days reporter Derek Brouwer about his article, “� that profiles how state prisons have handled the pandemic.

Broadcast live on Wednesday, April 6, 2022, at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.

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Connor Cyrus was co-host and senior producer of Vermont Edition from 2021-2023.
Matt Smith worked for ¿ªÔÆÌåÓý from 2017 to 2023 as managing editor and senior producer of Vermont Edition.