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Elderly killer is released on medical furlough
By timesargus.com
Published: 07/18/2014

An 81-year-old West Townshend woman who was convicted in 2006 of killing her elderly husband has been released from prison early on a medical furlough because of a “terminal or debilitating” illness, state officials said Thursday.

Hope Schreiner, who is the state’s oldest female inmate and its second-oldest inmate in custody, was released this week to a nursing home in northern Vermont, said Dean George, chairman of the Vermont Parole Board.

George said the decision to grant medical furlough to Schreiner was made by the Department of Corrections, not the Parole Board.

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