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PARKER v. GORCZYK

No. 97-347.

744 A.2d 410 (1999)

Gordon PARKER and Robert Bailey On Behalf of Themselves and Others Similarly Situated v. John GORCZYK, Commissioner, Vermont Department of Corrections.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

Motion for Reargument Denied December 23, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey Dworkin, Montpelier, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

William Sorrell, Attorney General, Montpelier, and Joseph L. Winn, Assistant Attorney General, Waterbury, for Defendant-Appellant.

Present: DOOLEY, MORSE, JOHNSON and SKOGLUND, JJ., and CASHMAN, District Judge, Specially Assigned.

SKOGLUND, J.

Plaintiffs, two inmates incarcerated at the Woodstock Regional Correctional Facility, brought this class action seeking to enjoin defendant, the Commissioner of the Department of Corrections, from implementing a policy that would make prisoners convicted of violent felonies ineligible for furlough until the expiration of their minimum sentences. Based on its conclusion that the policy violated plaintiffs' right to due process guaranteed by Chapter I,...

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