Press Releases / In the News

Vermont Protection & Advocacy releases its Investigation into the Transport by Law Enforcement Personnel and the Use of Metal Shackles on a Child With Disabilities for Purposes of Hospital to Hospital Transfer on November 3, 2006 (November 2007)(Click here to read the full investigative report)

Vermont Protection & Advocacy releases its Investigation into the Circumstances Surrounding the Injuries Sustained by a Youth While in the Detention Unit of the Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Facility in 2006 (September 6, 2007) (Click here to read the full investigative report)

Vermont Protection and Advocacy, Inc., will release its death investigation report concerning the death of Michael Estabrook while in the custody of the Vermont Department of Corrections at a 9:30 am press conference July 13, 2007 in Room 10 at the Vermont Statehouse (see full press release)(July 2007)

Free Legal Clinics for Vermont Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury (May 2007)

ADD Update March 2007 Issue p.7 (March 2007)

Press Release regarding the Deaths of Neil Prentiss and James Quigley While in Custody of the Vermont Department of Corrections (May 2004)
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Press Conference regarding the deaths of Christopher Fitzgerald and Amanda Menei (May 2004)
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Press Release regarding the Death of Lawrence Bessette Jr. on May 22, 2003 at the Northern State Correctional Facility (February 2004)
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