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28 V.S.A. § 721
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 28 - Public Institutions and Corrections|Chapter 11 - Supervision of Adult Inmates at the Correctional Facilities|§ 721. Offender reintegration; State policy

§ 721. Offender reintegration; State policy|The Department shall establish an offender reintegration process that requires offenders to be held accountable to their victims and the community. This process shall provide opportunities for victims of crime and other members of the community to participate in reentry programs under section 2a of this title and to allow for victims and members of the communities to provide input to the Department as provided for in subsection 104(a) of this title. Such input shall include the nature of the planned supervision, the offender's work and education needs, the potential impact to the victim(s) of the offender's presence in the community, and the opportunities to make use of the offender's abilities within the community. An offender who participates in the reintegration process provided for in this subchapter may be placed in the community under the Department's supervision for the remainder of the sentence if the Department is satisfied that the offender is demonstrating progress in his or her reentry programs and that the offender does not present an unreasonable risk to his or her victims or to the community at large. (Added 2001, No. 61, § 89; amended 2001, No. 142 (Adj. Sess.), § 170c, eff. June 16, 2002.)
28 V.S.A. § 722
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 28 - Public Institutions and Corrections|Chapter 11 - Supervision of Adult Inmates at the Correctional Facilities|§ 722. Definitions

§ 722. Definitions|As used in this subchapter:  (1) "Conditional reentry" means the process by which a sentenced offender is released into a community for supervision while participating in programs that assist the reintegration process. The offender's ability to remain in the community under supervision is conditioned on the offender's progress in reentry programs. (2) "Listed crime" means any offense identified in 13 V.S.A. § 5301(7). (3) "Total effective sentence" means the sentence imposed under 13 V.S.A. §§ 7031 and 7032 as calculated by the Department in the offender's records. (4) "Unlisted crime" means any offense that is a crime under Vermont law, but is not identified in 13 V.S.A. § 5301(7). (Added 2001, No. 61, § 89, eff. June 16, 2001.)
28 V.S.A. § 723
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 28 - Public Institutions and Corrections|Chapter 11 - Supervision of Adult Inmates at the Correctional Facilities|§ 723. Community supervision furlough

§ 723. Community supervision furlough|(a) The Department may release from a correctional facility to participate in a reentry program while serving the remaining sentence in the community a person who:  (1) has served the minimum term of the person's total effective sentence; (2) is ineligible for or refuses presumptive parole pursuant to section 501a of this title or has been returned or revoked to prison for a violation of conditions of parole, furlough, or probation; and (3) agrees to comply with such conditions of supervision the Department, in its sole discretion, deems appropriate for that person's furlough.   (b) The offender's continued supervision in the community is conditioned on the offender's commitment to and satisfactory progress in his or her reentry program and on the offender's compliance with any terms and conditions identified by the Department.(c) Prior to release under this section, the Department shall screen and, if appropriate, assess each felony drug and property offender for substance abuse treatment needs using an assessment tool designed to assess the suitability of a broad range of treatment services, and it shall use the results of this assessment in preparing a reentry plan. The Department shall attempt to identify all necessary services in the reentry plan and work with the offender to make connections to necessary services prior to release so that the offender can begin receiving services immediately upon release. (Added 1997, No. 148 (Adj. Sess.), § 61, eff. April 29, 1998; amended 2013, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 187; 2017, No. 91 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; 2019, No. 148 (Adj. Sess.), § 10, eff. Jan. 1, 2021.)
28 V.S.A. § 724
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 28 - Public Institutions and Corrections|Chapter 11 - Supervision of Adult Inmates at the Correctional Facilities|§ 724. Terms and conditions of community supervision furlough

§ 724. Terms and conditions of community supervision furlough|(a) Authority of the Department. The Department shall identify in the terms and conditions of community supervision furlough those programs necessary to reduce the offender's risk of reoffense and to promote the offender's accountability for progress in the reintegration process. The Department shall make all determinations of violations of conditions of community supervision furlough pursuant to this subchapter and any resulting change in status or termination of community supervision furlough status.(b) 90-day interruption or revocation. Any interruption of an offender's community supervision furlough after the Department has found a technical violation of furlough conditions shall trigger a Department Central Office case staffing review and Department notification to the Office of the Defender General if the interruption will be 90 days or longer.(c) Appeal. An offender whose furlough status is revoked or interrupted for 90 days or longer shall have the right to appeal the Department's determination to the Civil Division of the Superior Court in accordance with Rule 74 of the Vermont Rules of Civil Procedure. The appeal shall be based on a de novo review of the record. The appellant may offer testimony, and, in its discretion for good cause shown, the court may accept additional evidence to supplement the record. The appellant shall have the burden of proving by a preponderance of the evidence that the Department abused its discretion in imposing a furlough revocation or interruption for 90 days or longer pursuant to subsection (d) of this section.(d) Technical violations.  (1) As used in this section, "technical violation" means a violation of conditions of furlough that does not constitute a new crime. (2) It shall be abuse of the Department's discretion to revoke furlough or interrupt furlough status for 90 days or longer for a technical violation, unless:  (A) the offender's risk to reoffend can no longer be adequately controlled in the community, and no other method to control noncompliance is suitable; or (B) the violation or pattern of violations indicate the offender poses a danger to others or to the community or poses a threat to abscond or escape from furlough. (Added 2001, No. 61, § 89, eff. June 16, 2001; amended 2019, No. 148 (Adj. Sess.), § 11, eff. Jan. 1, 2021.)
28 V.S.A. § 725
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 28 - Public Institutions and Corrections|Chapter 11 - Supervision of Adult Inmates at the Correctional Facilities|§ 725. Parole hearing for offenders on community supervision furlough

§ 725. Parole hearing for offenders on community supervision furlough|The Department shall submit to the Parole Board a recommendation relative to whether the offender should be released to parole pursuant to section 501 of this title when:  (1) an offender sentenced solely for the commission of one or more unlisted crimes has, in the sole discretion of the Department, successfully completed 90 days of community supervision furlough; or (2) an offender sentenced for the commission of at least one or more listed crimes has, in the sole discretion of the Department, successfully completed 180 days of community supervision furlough. (Added 2001, No. 61, § 89, eff. June 16, 2001; amended 2019, No. 148 (Adj. Sess.), § 13, eff. Jan. 1, 2021.)
28 V.S.A. § 726
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 28 - Public Institutions and Corrections|Chapter 11 - Supervision of Adult Inmates at the Correctional Facilities|§ 726. Reduction of sentence

§ 726. Reduction of sentence|Each day an offender is supervised in a conditional reentry program shall be counted as one day served for the total effective sentence. (Added 2001, No. 61, § 89, eff. June 16, 2001; amended 2005, No. 87 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 8, 2006.)
28 V.S.A. § 751a
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 28 - Public Institutions and Corrections|Chapter 11 - Supervision of Adult Inmates at the Correctional Facilities|§ 751a. Definitions

§ 751a. Definitions|For purposes of this subchapter:  (1) "Assembled product" means a good produced by combining articles or components where none of the articles or components were fabricated, changed, or altered by the use of offender labor. (2) "Offender service labor" means the use of offender labor for projects such as brush clearing, painting, repairing, and construction. (3) "Offender work product" means a good fabricated by inmate labor in whole or in part from raw or prepared materials, so as to impart to those materials new forms, qualities, or properties. (Added 1999, No. 148 (Adj. Sess.), § 57, eff. May 24, 2000.)
28 V.S.A. § 752
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 28 - Public Institutions and Corrections|Chapter 11 - Supervision of Adult Inmates at the Correctional Facilities|§ 752. Offender Work Programs Special Fund

§ 752. Offender Work Programs Special Fund|(a) An Offender Work Programs Special Fund shall be maintained for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of section 751b of this title, which Fund shall include any appropriations made from time to time by the General Assembly and any sums obtained from the sale of goods and services produced by offenders pursuant to section 751b of this title. The Special Fund shall be managed pursuant to 32 V.S.A. chapter 7, subchapter 5.(b) Any expenses incurred by offender work programs shall be defrayed by this Fund.(c) All balances of the Fund remaining at the end of any fiscal year shall be carried forward and be made available for the succeeding fiscal year, and shall be kept as a special fund by the State Treasurer, except that any balance at the end of a fiscal year not needed to maintain offender work programs or for other purposes provided by section 751b or 761 of this title shall by September 1 of the subsequent fiscal year be transferred to the Victims' Compensation Fund established under 13 V.S.A. chapter 167.(d) The Fund also may be used, at the discretion of the Commissioner, to further the raising, harvesting, and preservation of food.(e) Purchases of materials for resale may be made from the Fund, but the Fund shall be maintained intact except for temporary depletion in making such purchases for resale.(f) [Repealed.]  (Added 1971, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 20; amended 1997, No. 152 (Adj. Sess.), § 11; 1999, No. 148 (Adj. Sess.), § 59, eff. May 24, 2000; 2009, No. 33, § 83(l)(1); 2019, No. 128 (Adj. Sess.), § 11.)
28 V.S.A. § 753
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 28 - Public Institutions and Corrections|Chapter 11 - Supervision of Adult Inmates at the Correctional Facilities|§ 753. Work release program

§ 753. Work release program|(a) The Commissioner shall have the authority to permit any inmate of any correctional facility to be gainfully employed outside the facility when the employment is determined to be in the best interests of the inmate and of the State, and when the inmate volunteers to participate in any work release program making provisions for gainful employment. Inmates may be employed by the State or by public or private employers. The rates of pay and other conditions of employment for an inmate released under this section shall be the same as those paid or required in the locality in which the work is performed.(b) The Commissioner shall have the power and responsibility to make rules and regulations for the administration of any work release program authorized under this section.(c) The Commissioner, before allowing any inmate to participate in a work release program, shall determine that the employment of the inmate will not cause the displacement of employed workers.(d) A work release program may be extended to include the enrollment of an inmate in academic or vocational programs designed to improve the skills and abilities of the inmate.(e) The time during which an inmate participates in a work release program outside a correctional facility shall be tabulated toward the serving of his or her sentence in the same manner as though the inmate had served such time at the facility. The inmate shall remain subject to the rules and regulations of the facility and be under the direction and control of the officers thereof during the period of his or her participation in the program. (Added 1971, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 20.)
28 V.S.A. § 754
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 28 - Public Institutions and Corrections|Chapter 11 - Supervision of Adult Inmates at the Correctional Facilities|§ 754. Powers and responsibilities of the Department regarding the work release program

§ 754. Powers and responsibilities of the Department regarding the work release program|The Department is charged with the following powers and responsibilities:  (1) To supervise and consult with inmates participating in any work release program. (2) To assist in locating available employment or vocational or other training opportunities for qualified work release participants and to effect placement of the participants under any work release program. (3) To promote public understanding and acceptance of the work release program. (4) To foster cooperation of all State agencies with the Department in the administration of the work release program. (5) To provide cash advances in the nature of loans from the revolving fund established by section 752 of this title to participants in the work release program as are necessary to carry out the program. The Commissioner is authorized to seek all available remedies in any court of this State or any court of competent jurisdiction to obtain a judgment in the event that an inmate receiving a cash advance in accordance with this section defaults in the repayment of the cash advance. (Added 1971, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 20.)
28 V.S.A. § 755
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 28 - Public Institutions and Corrections|Chapter 11 - Supervision of Adult Inmates at the Correctional Facilities|§ 755. Disposition of earnings

§ 755. Disposition of earnings|An inmate participating in a work release program shall cause to be given to the Commissioner the inmate's total earnings less payroll deductions authorized by law, including income taxes. Upon receipt of the earnings the Commissioner, to the extent reasonable, may:  (1) Deduct an amount determined to be equivalent to the cost of providing for the living expenses of the inmate. (2) Cause to be paid, as are needed, any of the following.  (A) Any costs or fine imposed by the sentencing court. (B) Any restitution included as part of the sentence of the inmate by the court. (C) Any sum as is needed for the support of the dependents of the inmate, in which case the Commissioner shall notify the Commissioner for Children and Families of the support payments. (D) Any loan which may have been issued to the inmate pursuant to subdivision 754(5) of this title. (E) Any restitution or reparation included as part of a disciplinary proceeding for damage to State-owned property. Any monies collected under this subdivision shall be used to offset the cost of repair or replacement of the damaged property.  (3) Allow the inmate to draw from the balance of his or her earnings a sufficient sum to cover his or her incidental expenses. (4) Credit to the account of the inmate the amount as remains after deductions are made in accordance with the provisions of this section, paying to the inmate the balance of his or her account upon his or her release. (Added 1971, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 20; amended 1977, No. 264 (Adj. Sess.), § 2; 1999, No. 147 (Adj. Sess.), § 4; 2005, No. 174 (Adj. Sess.), § 57.)
28 V.S.A. § 757
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 28 - Public Institutions and Corrections|Chapter 11 - Supervision of Adult Inmates at the Correctional Facilities|§ 757. Inmate not an agent of the State

§ 757. Inmate not an agent of the State|No inmate participating in any work release program, or engaged in work, industry, or employment at a correctional facility, or any community service or a public works activity or vocational training at a correctional facility or in the community while under the supervision of officers, employees, volunteers, or contracted persons of the Department of Corrections shall be deemed to be a "volunteer" or "State employee" for any purpose whatsoever. (Added 1971, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 20; amended 1993, No. 54, § 2.)
28 V.S.A. § 758
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 28 - Public Institutions and Corrections|Chapter 11 - Supervision of Adult Inmates at the Correctional Facilities|§ 758. Release from a correctional facility to do work in the service of such facility or of the Department

§ 758. Release from a correctional facility to do work in the service of such facility or of the Department|The supervising officer of any correctional facility may permit an inmate to leave the facility for the purpose of performing maintenance work or farm work, or any other work necessary, or appropriate for the maintenance, operations, or business of the facility or of the Department. (Added 1971, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 20.)
28 V.S.A. § 759
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 28 - Public Institutions and Corrections|Chapter 11 - Supervision of Adult Inmates at the Correctional Facilities|§ 759. Employment and furlough of an inmate during the pendency of prosecution

§ 759. Employment and furlough of an inmate during the pendency of prosecution|(a) A person confined at a correctional facility during the pendency of a prosecution against him or her may request to be employed pursuant to the provisions of section 751 of this title. Upon receipt of the request, the supervising officer may so employ the inmate, subject to all the rules and regulations of section 751.(b) A person so confined may be allowed access to the work release and furlough programs pursuant to the provisions of sections 753 and 808 of this title with the consent of the prosecuting State's Attorney and the judge of the court in which the person is being prosecuted. (Added 1971, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 20.)
28 V.S.A. § 760
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 28 - Public Institutions and Corrections|Chapter 11 - Supervision of Adult Inmates at the Correctional Facilities|§ 760. Compensation of offenders

§ 760. Compensation of offenders|(a) The Commissioner shall, in consultation with the Department of Labor, promulgate rules establishing an injured offender compensation program for offenders or their dependents for injuries suffered while under supervision by the Department and arising out of and in the course of work, industry, or an employment program, at a correctional facility, or any community service or public works activity or vocational training directed by the Department of Corrections. The rules shall establish the compensation, medical and vocational benefits to which an injured offender may be entitled as well as procedures for resolving disputes. To the extent practicable and consistent with the requirements of the Department, compensation, medical and vocational benefits shall be comparable to what a similarly injured employee would receive under 21 V.S.A. chapter 9.(b) The rights and remedies provided by this section and the rules adopted under authority of this section to an offender on account of a personal injury for which he or she is entitled to compensation under this section shall exclude all other rights and remedies of the offender, the offender's personal representation, dependents or next of kin, at common law, or otherwise on account of such injury.(c) For purposes of this section, the Department of Corrections shall be the sole entity responsible for providing any compensation owed to an injured offender, without regard to the place of injury, and no claim for workers' compensation or other common law action may be brought against the industry, employment program, government or community service entity, or vocational training provider either supervising the offender or receiving the benefit of the offender's services.(d) In no case shall compensation be made under subsection (a) of this section to any offender injured while participating in a work release program pursuant to section 753 of this title.(e) Any compensation which is fixed in accordance with the rules and regulations promulgated by the Ccommissioner may be paid either in periodic installments or in lump sum. The compensation may be drawn from the revolving fund established by section 752 of this title, from any general fund maintained by the Department, or from any approved source.(f) A claimant may seek review of the Department's decision relative to an award of compensation by petitioning a Superior Court under Rule 74 of the Vermont Rules of Civil Procedure. (Added 1971, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 20; amended 1993, No. 54, § 3; 1997, No. 148 (Adj. Sess.), § 69, eff. April 29, 1998; 2005, No. 103 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. April 5, 2006.)
28 V.S.A. § 761
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 28 - Public Institutions and Corrections|Chapter 11 - Supervision of Adult Inmates at the Correctional Facilities|§ 761. Offender work programs expansion

§ 761. Offender work programs expansion|The Vermont Correctional Industries component of the offender work programs shall not expand into an existing market until the Commissioner or designee has evaluated the impact of expansion on private sector business. (Added 1997, No. 62, § 44, eff. June 26, 1997; amended 1997, No. 152 (Adj. Sess.), § 12; 1999, No. 148 (Adj. Sess.), § 60, eff. May 24, 2000; 2009, No. 33, § 52; 2009, No. 67 (Adj. Sess.), § 96, eff. Feb. 25, 2010; 2019, No. 128 (Adj. Sess.), § 9.)
28 V.S.A. § 801a
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 28 - Public Institutions and Corrections|Chapter 11 - Supervision of Adult Inmates at the Correctional Facilities|§ 801a. Pregnant inmates

§ 801a. Pregnant inmates|(a) It shall be the policy of the State of Vermont to respect the unique health issues associated with a pregnant inmate. The Department of Corrections shall not routinely restrain pregnant inmates who are beyond their first trimester of pregnancy in the same manner as other inmates, recognizing that to do so might pose undue health risks for the mother and unborn child.(b) The Commissioner of Corrections shall ensure that all reasonable and appropriate measures consistent with public safety are made to transport a pregnant inmate in a manner that:  (1) prevents physical and psychological trauma; (2) respects the privacy of the individual; and (3) represents the least restrictive means necessary for the safety of the inmate, medical and correctional personnel, and the public.   (c) Unless the inmate presents a substantial flight risk or other extraordinary circumstances dictate otherwise, mechanical restraints of any kind shall not be used on a pregnant inmate after she has been declared by an attending health care practitioner to be in active labor. The inmate shall remain unrestrained after delivery while in recovery at the hospital. If restraints are used while the inmate is in labor or in the hospital during recovery after delivery, the Commissioner of Corrections shall make written findings as to the reasons why mechanical restraints were necessary to prevent escape or to ensure the safety of the inmate, medical and correctional personnel, or the public. (Added 2005, No. 180 (Adj. Sess.), § 4.)