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
005
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SPECIAL TREATMENT PROGRAMS
(Cite as: 28 V.S.A. § 903)
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§ 903. Access to treatment pending appeal; rule
Treatment, assessment, evaluation, screening, or programming shall not be restricted
or denied to inmates on the basis of any anticipated or pending direct or collateral
appeal of any criminal conviction, nor on the basis of any position taken by the appellant
in any such action. The Commissioner shall adopt rules pursuant to 3 V.S.A. chapter
25 regarding the confidentiality of communications by an inmate made for the purposes
of treatment, assessment, evaluations, screening, or programming while an appeal is
pending. This provision neither expands nor contracts the duty of the Commissioner
to adopt rules pursuant to 3 V.S.A. chapter 25. (Added 1995, No. 185 (Adj. Sess.), § 51, eff. May 22, 1996; amended 2015, No. 23, § 132.)