Sierra Dickey

Sierra Dickey

Sierra Dickey is a writer, educator, and organizer based in western Massachusetts. They have covered women’s incarceration, the prison abolition movement, farmworkers and undocumented worker struggle.

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Vermont Department of Corrections once claimed to support abolition and is now aggressively pursuing a new prison
Crime, Reform & Abolition

Vermont Department of Corrections once claimed to support abolition and is now aggressively pursuing a new prison

The “pinkwashing” of prisons ramps up in Vermont, where local officials are pushing for the construction of a “gender-responsive” facility

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10 Min
By: Sierra Dickey
color photograph of a Black woman holding a microphone and wearing a white T-shirt that reads "no new women's prisons"
Crime, Reform & Abolition

Multiple states are building new women’s prisons, but can they be stopped?

Tiff Harrington spent 15 years of her life under Department of Corrections (DOC) supervision in Vermont, where she gave birth to two children while incarcerated at Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility—a prison with a particularly bad reputation.  In 2019, Vermont DOC came under fire when Seven Days, a local independent

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10 Min
By: Sierra Dickey

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