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Audit Critical Of Vermont Corrections Department Transitional Housing Program
By wamc.org- Pat Bradley
Published: 07/02/2015

All the attention in our region has been on prison issues in upstate New York in recent weeks. But next door, a report by the Vermont state auditor is critical of the Department of Corrections’ transitional housing program for released inmates.

In 2013, the Vermont auditor responded to a whistleblower complaint regarding one grantee providing transitional housing services for the Department of Corrections. In response, Corrections developed a new oversight plan for its service providers.

State Auditor Doug Hoffer says his office then followed up with a full audit on the grantees and probation and parole offices with whom they interact. “The department for its part did say that they intended to adopt better policies and procedures and would make some changes. So we gave them a year or so. A little bit more actually and then decided to look at the entire program and see how well they had done. As it turned out there is still room for improvement both in the oversight and in the performance by the contracted entities. Actually they’re grantees. I’m not entirely surprised. Some of it’s a resource issue. The Commissioner to his credit was gracious and said yes we agree you found some areas where we need to improve. And they’re going to try.”

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