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• MYNBC5.com: ACLU of Vermont recommends several changes to criminal justice system
• Meeting with Commissioner (DOC), Director (Field Supervision), and other DOC leadership to learn more about supervision practices and policy.
• Observation of community supervision risk-reduction programming with contracted program staff at the Orleans County Field Services in Newport.
• Observation of criminal docket court proceedings with Court Liaison (Orleans County Field Services).
• Meeting regarding reentry processes with Orleans County Field Services officers.
• Meeting with Judge (Criminal Docket, Orleans County Superior Court) to learn more about court room dynamics and trends.
• Meeting with Orleans County Field Services staff to learn about presentence investigation reports.
• Observation of Orleans County Field Services officer and client meeting.
• Meeting with Orleans County Field Services community correction officers who conduct home visits for people on community supervision.
• Meeting with District Manager (Orleans County Field Supervision) to debrief on the site visit.
• Meeting with Chittenden County Field Services supervision leadership and staff in Burlington.
• Observation of officer and client appointments with Probation Officer (Chittenden County Field Services).
• Meeting with Chittenden County Field Services Supervisors to learn more about local culture and practice.
• Observation of officer and client appointment with Probation Officer (Chittenden County Field Services).
• Observation of Chittenden County Field Services Case staffing meeting.
• Meeting with Chittenden County Field Services Supervisor and community correction officers, who conduct house visits for people on community supervision.
• Observed risk-reduction programming for people on community supervision.
• Facilitated a focus group of people on community supervision in Chittenden County to learn what is and is not working for them.
• Meeting with Chittenden County Field Services Court liaison ahead of court room observations for the criminal docket.
• Meeting with Chittenden County Field Services to discuss transitional reentry policies and practices.
• Meeting with Director (Field Services, DOC) and Director of Programming (DOC) to debrief on the observations and meetings with their staff.
• Meeting with Rutland Defense Attorney and several defense attorney colleagues to introduce the Justice Reinvestment project and learn more about courtroom dynamics and community-based resources available to their clients.
• Meeting with State’s Attorney (Rutland County) to introduce the Justice Reinvestment project and learn more about sentencing practices and available community resources from her office’s perspective.
• Meeting with Senator (Judiciary Chair and working group member) to touch base ahead of the October working group meeting and discuss legislative strategy.
• Second meeting of the Justice Reinvestment II Working Group.
• Meeting with Chittenden Defense Attorney and several defense attorney colleagues to introduce the Justice Reinvestment project and learn more about courtroom dynamics and community-based resources available to their clients.
• 10/1: Call with Director (Vermont Alliance for Recovery Residencies) to introduce the Justice Reinvestment project and learn more about ongoing state conversations regarding setting higher standards for recovery residences in Vermont, which would impact the sober houses many people exiting DOC utilize.
• 10/4: Call with Executive Director (Vermont Parole Board) to introduce the Justice Reinvestment project and learn more about the parole board.
• 10/10: Call with Commissioner (DOC), Deputy Commissioner (DOC) and Administrative Services Director (DOC) to touch base ahead of the October working group meeting.
• 10/11: Call with Court Administrator (Judiciary) and Chief Justice (Judiciary and working group chair) to touch base ahead of the October working group meeting.
• 10/14: Call with Chittenden Defense Attorney to provide an overview on the Vermont Justice Reinvestment project ahead of meeting with additional defense attorneys in person.
• 10/15: Call with Judge (Administrative Judge, Vermont Judiciary) and Court Administrator (Judiciary) to learn more about judiciary practices and an opportunity to send out a statewide judiciary survey.
• 10/28: Call with Executive Director (Vermont Network Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault and working group member) and Deputy Director (Vermont Network Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault) to learn more about the history and current availability of domestic violence programming and sex offender treatment.
• 10/28: Call with Vermonters for Criminal Justice Reform to provide an overview on the Vermont Justice Reinvestment project and learn more about his organization’s advocacy priorities.
• 10/29: Call with Director (Justice for All) to provide an overview on the Vermont Justice Reinvestment project and learn more about his organization’s advocacy priorities.
• 10/29: Call with Executive Director (Burlington Housing Authority), who just recently left DOC for this new position, to discuss DOC reentry housing challenges.
• 10/30: Call with coordinator and lobbyist (Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition) to discuss the challenges with reentry housing for people with behavioral health needs.
• 10/30: Call with Medical Director (BAART Clinics and the MAT Medical Director for Centurion Healthcare, the DOC Health contractor) to learn about what community-based treatment is available for people with addictions, mental illnesses, and co-occurring disorders who are in the criminal justice system in the Northeastern Kingdom.
• 10/30: Call with Chair (Vermont Parole Board) to learn more about parole board policies and practices, particularly for people on furlough supervision.
• 10/31: Call with MAT Director (Gifford Addiction Medicine) to learn about what community-based treatment is available for people with addictions, mental illnesses, and co-occurring disorders who are in the criminal justice system in Central Vermont.
In October, CSG Justice Center research staff for the Vermont Justice Reinvestment project primarily focused on analysis and visualization of NIBRS crime data, Vermont judiciary sentencing data, and Vermont Department of Corrections population snapshot data. Crime data analysis centered on examination of the volume of reported crimes in Vermont by offense type and county to identify which crimes are contributing to an increase in violent crime especially, and where they are occurring. After receiving a corrected sentencing data file from the judiciary, CSG Justice Center research staff spent extensive time cleaning and formatting this data and analyzing such aspects as dispositions by sentencing option, sex, race, county, and offense type; the changes in offense level and the time from filing to case disposal; and incarceration and probation sentence lengths. Department of Corrections population snapshot data analysis looked at each different population managed by the department (probation, furlough, parole, pretrial detention, sentenced incarceration) over the last four years for changes in volume, and proportions by sex, race, age group, offense level, and offense type. All of these analyses were then visualized in PowerPoint slides, and a draft of the November presentation to the Vermont Justice Reinvestment II Working Group is currently in development.
• 10/1 to 10/11: NIBRS crime incident and arrest data downloaded from the FBI, cleaned, and combined to form analysis files. Vermont DOC population snapshot files formatted. Review of new iteration of DOC admissions and release file files. New iteration of judiciary sentencing file received. Additional series of questions regarding the contents of the data files submitted to the DOC and judiciary.
• 10/12 to 10/18: Start of crime data analysis, including trends in reports by detailed offense type. Sentencing data from the judiciary required extensive work to collapse by case, code into offense categories, and distill into sentencing option categories. Analysis and visualization of sentencing data by sex, race, and county split by misdemeanor and felony convictions.
• 10/19 to 10/25: Crime data analysis and visualization, including crime trends by county. DOC population snapshot analysis and visualization to understand the trends in different supervision and incarceration groups over time by demographics and offense type.
• 10/26 to 10/31: New iteration of DOC admissions and releases file received with all status types, including pretrial detention, included. Extensive coding will be required to use these files to understand movements of individuals through different status types in the system. Coding for admission types underway. Additional sentencing analysis and visualization completed, including a revised look at split sentences to incarceration and probation, trends in sentencing options by offense category, and changes in the volume of different offense dispositions over time. Working toward a draft PowerPoint presentation for mid-November.
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