The Vermont Department of Corrections (DOC) has scheduled its first correctional “town meetings” where members of the public can weigh in on  departmental directives, policies and other topics of interest to inmates’ families, friends and advocates. 

The first corrections town meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 4 from 4:15 to 6:15 p.m. The dates, times and locations of those town meetings can all be found here. 

As Seven Days reported in July, the town meeting-style approach will replace Vermont’s Corrections Citizen Advisory Group (CCAG) which Corrections Commissioner Andrew Pallito disbanded during the summer due to ongoing concerns about dwindling attendance at its quarterly meetings, as well as its somewhat dysfunctional membership. In July, Pallito told members of the Legislative Corrections Oversight Committee that the meetings had become unduly burdensome and unproductive, with some of its members “wasting my time.” 

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Staff Writer Ken Picard is a senior staff writer at Seven Days. A Long Island, N.Y., native who moved to Vermont from Missoula, Mont., he was hired in 2002 as Seven Days’ first staff writer, to help create a news department. Ken has since won numerous...

One reply on “VT Dept of Corrections Schedules “Town Meetings” To Replace Citizens Advisory Group”

  1. If you want good feedback from people, post a solid agenda. If the meeting was pointless in the past, it’s going to be dull and pointless again. No agenda posted on your link makes me think you will waste the public time again.

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