CURE Vermont

02/04/2016

The Vermont Parole Board exhibits a "brazen indifference to transparency and 'customer' accessibility." So we told the Senate Institutions committee on Wednesday. You can see the two documents that CURE VERMONT submitted in support of this assertion at:
http://legislature.vermont.gov/committee/document/2016/28/Date/2-4-2016

Materials available on the Institutions page are provided for informational purposes only, and may not comprise all materials received by the Committee. The Committee is not responsible for the accuracy of any information in these materials, and their posting does not constitute approval or endorsem…

10/26/2015

wonders if you will be there on Thursday:

http://legislature.vermont.gov/committee/agenda/2016/2330

10/02/2015

finds this troubling (and hopes that Vermont Law School receives the grant money).

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Vermont-state-library-shuts-out-jailhouse-lawyers-6519197.php

SPRINGFIELD, Vt. (AP) - Vermont prison inmates no longer can reach out to the state law library in Montpelier for help with legal research due to a budget cut, but they will still have other ways to prepare court petitions. Inmates have received two letters in recent months saying the law library at…

10/02/2015

shares this:

http://www.sevendaysvt.com/OffMessage/archives/2015/09/17/vermont-doc-freeing-inmates-after-judges-ruling

The Department of Corrections has approved early releases for 84 people from custody or from community supervision and is reviewing its entire 10,000-person caseload after...

10/02/2015

hopes that you read this and find it "sobering," too.

http://vtdigger.org/2015/09/17/lawmakers-sobered-by-mental-health-medical-needs-of-prison-population/

Vermont lawmakers 'sobered' by mental health, medical needs of prison population

09/16/2015

wonders: Will you be attending in Springfield tomorrow?

http://legislature.vermont.gov/committee/agenda/2016/2235

3:00 PM Sufficiency to house Vermont's incarcerated population in Department of Corrections facilities

09/16/2015

shares this troubling report:

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/local/vermont/2015/09/15/agency-inmate-get-proper-care/72334128/

Agency that investigates abuse and neglect of disabled Vermont residents is criticizing the state Department of Corrections

09/16/2015

notes that Lisa Menard replaces Andy Pallito as commissioner at the Department of Corrections.

What do you think of that?

http://www.sevendaysvt.com/OffMessage/archives/2015/09/15/jim-reardon-longtime-state-finance-chief-to-retire

There comes a time near the end of every legislative session when all eyes turn to Jim Reardon. As Vermont's commissioner of finance and management,...

08/27/2015

urges you --- if you or a loved one is in the Vermont system --- right now to read Judge Wesley's decision in Superior Court of Vermont. It promises to make DOC do sentence computations for a host of Vermont prisoners. We know of at least one who had been held past not just when he should have been freed from incarceration, but free of DOC supervision entirely!

(If you want to receive a copy of Judge Wesley's decision, send an E-mail to Gordon at [email protected])

08/21/2015

wonders what you think of this:
http://www.reformer.com/news/ci_28666024/grega:-judge-dismisses-some-claims-keeps-conspiracy-charge

BRATTLEBORO >> A federal court granted the town of Dover's dismissal from a civil lawsuit of a man who spent 17 years in prison for the murder of his wife.

08/18/2015

is saddened to report the death of another Vermont prisoner. This marks death No. 5 in the past year.

http://bfpne.ws/1NCYU4n

Woman jailed since Saturday on retail theft, drug charges

08/13/2015

shares another of the news stories to emerge from yesterday's meeting of the Legislature's renamed joint Justice Oversight committee:

http://vtdigger.org/2015/08/12/defender-general-doc-other-agencies-contributed-to-inmates-su***de/

Three major state agencies, including the Department of Corrections, aided in the untimely death of Patrick Fennessey, who hung himself while in prison.