Prison News | Vermont

• Education & Rehabilitation
• Executions, Death Row, & the Death Penalty
• Gangs in Prison
• Health & Medical Treatment
• Prison Classification, Placement, and Release
• Prison Conditions & Corruption
• Prison Life & Prison Culture
• Riots, Lockdowns & Escapes
• Suicides in Prison
• Workplace & Industry News and Science & Tech

Education & Rehabilitation

• A Conservative Case for Prison Reform
  
  MANASSAS, Va. — CONSERVATIVES should recognize that the entire criminal justice system is another government spending program fraught with the issues that plague all government programs. Criminal justice should be subject to the same level ...... [ more ]
  New York Times, Monday, June 10, 2013
  
  
• Vt. prison inmates help bats by making daytimes roosts at Windsor prison
  
  WINDSOR, Vt. (AP) - Inmates at Vermont's Windsor prison are helping to save bats by building daytime roosting boxes. The 50 bat houses were given away at this year's Herrick's Cove Wildlife Festival to attendees who regularly observe bats ...... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Tuesday, May 21, 2013
  
  
• Vermont Corrections Dept. holds public meeting to get feedback, answer questions
  
  MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - The Vermont Department of Corrections is holding a town hall style meeting on interactive television to get comments and take questions from the public.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Monday, May 13, 2013
  
  
• Editorial: Helping inmates helps reduce recidivism rate
  
  In just two years, the program has spread to every prison in the state and includes a much broader population. ... [ more ]
  Burlington Free Press, Friday, June 8, 2007
  
  

Executions, Death Row & the Death Penalty

Gangs in Prison

• Editorial: Helping inmates helps reduce recidivism rate
  
  In just two years, the program has spread to every prison in the state and includes a much broader population. ... [ more ]
  Burlington Free Press, Friday, June 8, 2007
  
  

Health & Medical Treatment

Prison Classification, Placement, & Release

• Vt. Senate passes bill on prisoner probes
  
  MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- The Vermont Senate passed a bill Tuesday to clarify the role of the defender general in investigating problems in the state's prison system, following complaints the office was hampered in investigating a prison suicide last year.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Tuesday, February 11, 2014
  
  
• Vermont town on edge but likely off hook: High-risk sex offender moving out of state
  
  SPRINGFIELD, Vt. (AP) - Correction officials said Thursday they have a new plan for a high-risk sex offender due to be released from prison: He's moving out of state.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Thursday, July 25, 2013
  
  

Prison Conditions & Corruption

• Prison death case issue heard before state supreme court
  
  MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Lawyers have argued before the Vermont Supreme Court over who should pay for the legal defense against any claims made in the 2009 death of a woman who was denied medication in jail.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Wednesday, May 22, 2013
  
  

Prison Life & Culture

• Vt. teen in police assault sentenced to prison
  
  BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP) - An 18-year-old Vermont boy who was shot with a stun gun while trying to flee from police two years ago has been sentenced to up to two years in prison.... [ more ]
  Bennington Banner, Thursday, July 4, 2013
  
  

Riots, Lockdowns & Escapes

• Vermont Inmate Found Dead in Springfield
  
  The Department of Corrections says 59-year-old Anthony Nichols was pronounced dead Saturday morning at the Southern State Correctional Facility in Springfield. State police said an autopsy will be performed and that the death does not appear suspicious.... [ more ]
  www.necn.com, Saturday, June 29, 2019
  
  
• Vermont Corrections warns: High-risk sex offender being released from prison soon
  
  SPRINGFIELD, Vt. (AP) - The state's Department of Corrections is warning the public that a high-risk sex offender who handcuffed and assaulted an autistic boy is about to be released from prison.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Tuesday, July 16, 2013
  
  
• Woman who allegedly walked away from Vt. prison work crew sought by police
  
  CHARLOTTE, Vt. (AP) - Vermont police and Department of Corrections officers are searching for a 33-year-old woman alleged to have fled from a prison work crew in Charlotte.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Friday, July 12, 2013
  
  
• Vt. inmate charged with sending threatening letter to prosecutor
  
  BARRE, Vt. (AP) - A 36-year-old Vermont prison inmate is facing charges he sent a threatening letter to the prosecutor who sent him to jail.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Tuesday, June 25, 2013
  
  
• Vt inmate charged with assaulting corrections officer
  
  RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) - Vermont State Police have charged an inmate with assaulting a corrections officer. Police say it's the second such offense 42-year-old John Partch is accused of. He's at the Marble Valley Regional Correctional Facility in..... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Friday, June 14, 2013
  
  

Suicides in Prison

• Vt. officials: prisons see more suicide attempts
  
  MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Suicide attempts in Vermont prisons have increased, said officials from the state Department of Corrections.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Tuesday, September 24, 2013
  
  

Workplace & Industry News, and Science & Tech News

• Vermont Labor Board: State workers don't get double pay for work after Irene
  
  MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - The Vermont Labor Relations Board has denied 63 state workers who wanted double pay for working while displaced from their offices following Tropical Storm Irene.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Tuesday, July 9, 2013
  
  
• Contract Notice: Vermont Department of Corrections Issues Request for Proposal for Group Facilitation Services
  
  WATERBURY, Vt., June 20 -- Vermont Department of Corrections has issued a Request for Proposal (No. COR061813) on June 19 for the group facilitation services.... [ more ]
  Bids.ca, Thursday, June 20, 2013
  
  
• Vermont lawsuit asks: when state privatizes services, what happens to public records?
  
  MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - A lawsuit by a Brattleboro publisher and the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont is raising a question about what happens to the idea of access to public records when government services are privatized.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Thursday, June 13, 2013