Join us on Wednesday, Jan. 16 at 6 p.m. at the Springfield Town Library for a free showing of the new documentary by Bess O’Brien, “Coming Home.”
The film demonstrates how the Circles of Support and Accountability program (COSA) helps those who are returning to Vermont communities after prison lead a healthier and more productive life, with less chance of recidivism.
The COSA process, the struggles and challenges that face those coming out of prison, and the successes of the program are examined. Community volunteers as well as representatives from the Vermont Department of Corrections, Probation and Parole and the Restorative Justice Centers will be available for a question and answer session after the showing of the film.
This program is co-hosted by Springfield Restorative Justice Center and the Springfield Town Library. As with all library programs, this program is free, accessible to people with disabilities, and open to the public. Springfield Town Library is located at 43 Main Street, Springfield, Vermont. For more information please contact, 802-885-3108 or stlas@vermontel.net.
The Opposite Of Addiction is Connection
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The film demonstrates how the Circles of Support and Accountability program (COSA) helps those who are returning to Vermont communities after prison lead a healthier and more productive life, with less chance of recidivism.
The COSA process, the struggles and challenges that face those coming out of prison, and the successes of the program are examined. Community volunteers as well as representatives from the Vermont Department of Corrections, Probation and Parole and the Restorative Justice Centers will be available for a question and answer session after the showing of the film.
This program is co-hosted by Springfield Restorative Justice Center and the Springfield Town Library. As with all library programs, this program is free, accessible to people with disabilities, and open to the public. Springfield Town Library is located at 43 Main Street, Springfield, Vermont. For more information please contact, 802-885-3108 or stlas@vermontel.net.
The Opposite Of Addiction is Connection
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Here's the thing, I DON'T CARE!
ReplyDeleteMy sympathies lie with the victims. The molested children. The young lives destroyed by opiate dealers. Hard working tradesmen robbed of their tools and livelihood by habitual offenders. The elderly and weak preyed upon by those with no conscience.
Hardly anyone goes to jail in Vermont. Those that do, truly belong behind bars. We owe them NOTHING! If freedom alone is not motivation enough to live an honest life, no amount of money squandered on foolish social programs will make any difference.
As Strother Martin so irrefutably articulated, "Some men you just can't reach."
BIAS media of LIBERAL heart BLEEDING to addictions AND Don't even consider of people WHO WORK for our wages. My grandfather was a sheriff: LAW IS LAW! I obeyed the LAW and never got a ticket or arrest! This was decades ago when my grandfather died; have to move on!
ReplyDeleteDon't go with drug ADDICTION as can go with a snowball out of control with spreading to the FAMILIES with very excellent reputation gone sour with the BAD Person, too.
Omg s...t….f....uuuuuuup!
ReplyDelete1/3/19, 1:54 PM I thought NO PROFANITY is NOT ALLOW!
ReplyDeleteLet the victims decide how they feel about the offender's release. Don't go insisting on yet more punishment when victims have gotten beyond the matter.
ReplyDeleteHow about letting the victims or their survivors determine the punishment in the first place?
DeleteI like how Mr. Caron thinks. Have had incidents of the State Attorney's office not giving a serious theft case priority due to not being a violent crime. Required application of street justice. Oddly, the police gave the matter low priority to investigate and the culprit was never a repeat offender.
DeleteIt beats having the victims set up a multigenerational feud...
DeleteON second thought, having the victims decide the punishment is likely to set up a multigenerational feud. Better that they and the perpetrator both feel they've been shortchanged than having only one family feel they've been badly shortchanged, like the Hatfields and McCoys...
DeleteWe are SUPPOSED to be a nation of laws. Letting the victims decide the punishment for crimes would lead to a vindictive, disproportionate system of justice. Having one individual declare that the theft of his chainsaw deserves the death penalty, for example.
ReplyDeleteThe system as it stands is broken. We all see the same names time and again in the police news. Near endless probation sentences. Scofflaws have no fear of fines and imprisonment for good reason.
DeleteOne solution is forums like this. A 21st century town crier if you will. To post conviction photos with home addresses and driver's licence photos of next of kin. Shame is a powerful deterrent. Scheme is very inexpensive to administer having proved successful in Asia. Adding irresponsible parents to the posting has tremendous leverage.
That's all fine and dandy, until someone decides that YOU'RE the irresponsible lout, and posts your shortcomings (which I guarantee you have) online, or just makes things up because they don't like you. Happens all the time around here. I guarantee that social standards could be raises to such a point that no one could meet them. Are you really sure you can stand up that level of scrutiny? I doubt it.
Delete@ 3:19, I'm taking it Jr. didn't make the dean's list again last semester?
DeleteThanks, 3:27. You just proved my point about petty, vindictive people making things up, and posting them. Knew it wouldn't take very long. Putting others on the defensive by degrading them is a criminal trait, so there's ONE social standard you've failed! Care to try for two?
DeleteIf I ever get convicted and incarcerated due to a criminal act, I don't want any special treatment.
DeleteJust treat me like an illegal alien!
Si, Si!
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