The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
Subchapter
003
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CARE OF INMATES
(Cite as: 28 V.S.A. § 817)
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§ 817. Creation of work camps; intent
It is the intent of the General Assembly that the creation of one or more new work
camps in fiscal year 2006 and after will help alleviate overcrowded conditions in
the State’s correctional facilities and permit Vermonters housed in out-of-state facilities
to be brought home to Vermont. The General Assembly specifically does not intend the
creation of new work camps to result in an increase in the total number of Vermont
offenders sentenced to incarceration. Therefore, specific plans and programs developed
by the Department of Corrections shall restrict placement in new work camps to those
offenders who have been convicted of a nonviolent offense and who have served a portion
of their current sentence within a correctional facility. No court shall impose a
sentence of imprisonment to be served initially or solely within the new facility. (Added 2005, No. 147 (Adj. Sess.), § 59, eff. May 15, 2006.)