Easter morning: two women, inmates at Vermont' s new reform prison for women (P4W), are found dead. They were isolated in separate cells with no contact between them; yet, both are found lying in the identical position, and no cause of death can be determined in either case. The deaths are the first in Montrose Penitentiary, and they' re particularly untimely because a special commission is about to review the status of this experiment in prison reform. The commission could decide to abolish the reforms, or even privatize the prison. Vermont may be on the progressive edge of America, but it seems, even here, bottom-line budgeting is gaining the upper hand.