The Vermont Statutes Online
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Subchapter
001
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THE COMPACT
(Cite as: 28 V.S.A. § 1601)
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§ 1601. Purpose and policy—Article I
The party states, desiring by common action to fully utilize and improve their institutional
facilities and provide adequate programs for the confinement, treatment and rehabilitation
of various types of offenders, declare that it is the policy of each of the party
states to provide such facilities and programs on a basis of cooperation with one
another, thereby serving the best interests of such offenders and of society and effecting
economies in capital expenditures and operational costs. The purpose of this compact
is to provide for the mutual development and execution of such programs of cooperation
for the confinement, treatment and rehabilitation of offenders with the most economical
use of human and material resources. (Added 1969, No. 13, § 1, eff. Feb. 28, 1969.)