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• Vermont Digger: System aimed to reduce prison population drives up prison admissions
• Northern State Correctional Facility site visit within DOC to observe programming within the facility.
• Meeting with Addison County State’s Attorney to discuss trends in the state criminal justice system from a prosecutor’s perspective.
• Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility site visit within DOC to observe programming within the facility.
• Meeting with Commissioner (DOC) to discuss possible policy options.
• Meeting with Chief (Battleboro Police Department) to learn more about the criminal justice system from a law enforcement perspective, particularly responding to calls involving people with mental health and addiction needs.
• Meeting with Bennington County State’s Attorney to learn more about the criminal justice system in Vermont from a prosecutorial perspective.
• Meeting with Bennington Defense Attorney to learn more about the criminal justice system in Vermont from a defense attorney’s perspective.
• Meeting with Smart Justice Organizer (Vermont ACLU) to learn about her lived experience being incarcerated at the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility and being on community supervision.
• Meeting with DOC Field Supervision to observe client reporting at the supervision office, supervision officer-client meetings, programs offered, as well as hold a focus group of people on community supervision (furlough, probation and parole.
• Fourth meeting of the Justice Reinvestment II Working Group
• Meeting with Senate Judiciary Chair and working group member, Representative (House Chair of Corrections and Institutions and working group member) and Representative (House Judiciary Chair and working group member to discuss Justice Reinvestment policy options for the working group.
• Meeting of the Joint Legislative Justice Oversight Committee.
• 12/3: Call with Deputy Commissioner of Vermont Department of Mental Health to discuss findings from conversations with behavioral health stakeholders.
• 12/4: Call with DIVAS to discuss system challenges for women held in the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility.
• 12/5: Call with Captain (Vermont State Police) to learn more about opportunities and resources to help law enforcement when responding to cases that involve people struggling with addiction.
• 12/5: Call with Supervisor (UVMMC Emergency Department Peer Recovery Coaching Program, Turning Point Center of Chittenden County) to learn more about how peer recovery coaching is used for people in the criminal justice system.
• 12/9: Call with The Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence to further discuss domestic violence programming available.
• 12/10: Call with Senator (Senate Judiciary Chair and working group member) to discuss possible policy recommendations for the Justice Reinvestment project.
• 12/11: Call with Executive Director (Vermont Parole Board) to discuss ongoing conversations in the state regarding creating presumptive parole.
• 12/11: Call with Commissioner (DOC), Deputy Commissioner (DOC), Field Services Director (DOC), Administrator (DOC), and Program Director (DOC) to review working group presentation and get feedback on DOC data analysis and findings.
• 12/13: Call with Mental Health Director (DOC) to review working group presentation and get feedback.
• 12/13: Call with Deputy Commissioner (Division of Alcohol & Drug Abuse Programs, Department of Health and working group member) to discuss working group presentation and get feedback on behavioral health findings.
• 12/13: Call with Chief Justice (Vermont State Supreme Court and working group chair), Judge (Vermont Judiciary), and Court Administrator (Vermont Judiciary and working group member) to discuss working group presentation and get feedback and finalize agenda.
• 12/13: Call with Commissioner (Vermont Department of Mental Health and working group member) to discuss working group presentation and get feedback on behavioral health findings.
• 12/18: Call with Vermont State’s Attorney Office and working group member to discuss possible policy options for the Justice Reinvestment project.
• 12/18: Call with Defense Attorney (Office of the Defender General) to discuss trends in sentencing in the criminal justice system in Vermont.
• 12/18: Call with Legal Counsel (Governor’s Office), Racial Equity Director (Governor’s Office), and Policy Director (Governor’s Office) to discuss possible policy options for the Justice Reinvestment project.
• 12/20: Call with Vermont Chronic Care Initiative to learn more about how people with severe mental illness who are in the criminal justice system are connected to community-based behavioral health resources.
CSG Justice Center research staff’s engagement with the Vermont Justice Reinvestment project in December was focused first on final PowerPoint development for the December 16 working group presentation, and then turned to final policy option development and impact analysis. As the December 16 presentation approached, final analyses and visualizations were completed on topics such as
DOC admissions and snapshot populations by risk level, supervision outcomes by risk, time to failure on supervision, DOC budget trends, length of stay among revocations, and descriptions of caveats and limitations surrounding the data and analysis. CSG Justice Center staff delivered a draft of the presentation to funders and key stakeholders and incorporated their feedback before the presentation was delivered to the working group. Later that week, the CSG Justice Center team began to discuss and outline policy proposals. CSG Justice Center research staff started to prepare for the next presentation to the working group in January by conducting some follow-up analysis on DOC populations by race, offense type, and state of residence and beginning to set up the structure for an Excel-based impact model of the policy package. Modeling will be developed further in January as the team prepares for the next presentation to the working group on the January 22.
- 12/1–12/7 Activity
Analysis of the proportion of the sentenced incarceration population beyond their minimum date and DOC populations by risk level and time to failure for probation and furlough revocations. Budget trends requested and received from DOC. Improved visualizations on supervision revocations by type, repeat violations of furlough, risk levels among male and female supervision and incarceration populations, and rates of violations in Vermont compared to other states. Presentation draft submitted to Vermont stakeholders for review.
- 12/8–12/14 Activity
Final changes to presentation completed including feedback from stakeholders, CSG Justice Center leadership, CSG Justice Center Communications, and BJA.
- 12/15–12/21 Activity
Dialed in to the Justice Reinvestment Working Group presentation. Team calls to discuss policy options. Ad hoc analysis of DOC populations by race, offense, and home state. Started setting up impact modeling spreadsheets.
- 12/22–12/31 Activity
Offices closed for holidays.
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