Vermont Statutes Title 28 Sec. 505
Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 28 Sec. 505
- facility: means any building, enclosure, space, or structure of or supported by the Department and used for the confinement of persons committed to the custody of the Commissioner, or for any other matter related to such confinement. See
- Inmate: means any person, not a child, committed to the custody of the Commissioner pursuant to the law of the State and subsequently committed to a correctional facility and any person confined at a correctional facility during the pendency of a prosecution against him or her. See
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
§ 505. Cooperation of correctional facility officials
(a) The Board shall adopt rules regarding and shall direct, control, and supervise the administration of a system of paroles from any appropriate correctional facility.
(b) Officials in charge of correctional facilities shall give to the Board, or its properly accredited representatives, access at all reasonable times to any inmate over whom the Board has jurisdiction under this chapter and provide the Board or its representatives facilities for communicating with and observing the inmate, and furnish to the Board such documents as the Board may require concerning the conduct and character of any inmate in their custody and any other facts considered by the Board pertinent in determining whether the inmate shall be paroled. (Added 1971, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 20; amended 2001, No. 61, § 87, eff. June 16, 2001; 2015, No. 23, § 131.)