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G

GBC:  General Broadcast.  Statewide notification of all law enforcement agencies of an event in the community, i.e. escape of an offender. (407.03)

General Risk Assessment Measures:  Assessment tools and instruments used to estimate and predict the overall likelihood of recidivism by an individual.  This includes the Level of Services Inventory and the Violence Risk Appraisal Guide. (371.07)

Guest Volunteer: A volunteer who has not completed screening and training but who provides occasional services to the Department under the supervision of paid staff or other registered volunteers.  A guest volunteer who provides services more than three (3) times a year must apply to be a registered volunteer in order to continue.  Guest volunteers, for purposes of identification, will be treated as visitors on official business. (380.01 – 1/08)

Ghost File: A file that is created to duplicate material contained in the main core file or pencil file intended to be used in the absence of a core file.  These files are to be destroyed when they are no longer needed. (251.01)

Goal: The terminal point; the end place; the area towards which is advanced upon. (03)

Graduated Sanction: Consequences imposed on offenders who violate conditions of probation, parole, supervised community sentence, or furlough. (407.03)

Grievance Coordinator:  A DOC employee of a Correctional Facility, Field Office or Out of State Unit designated to coordinate the offender grievance process. (320.01)

Group Counseling: The provision of services to a group of persons with a set of common problems or growth needs to aid them, collectively and individually, in resolving the problems or growing in the desired direction. (202)

Guests:  Persons who are visiting the facility to review a program or view the physical structure, i.e., politicians, students, clubs, or staff. (415)

Guest Volunteer: A volunteer who has not completed screening and training but who provides occasional services to the Department under the supervision of paid staff or other registered volunteers.  A guest volunteer who provides services more than three (3) times a year must apply to be a registered volunteer in order to continue.  Guest volunteers, for purposes of identification, will be treated as visitors on official business. (380.01 – 1/08)

H

Habilitation: To make capable, qualified. (03)

Health Care: The general group of activities that contract and employed personnel provide, which supports behavior, which provides for physical wellness and treats physical illness in offenders. (202)

Health Care Provider: Persons providing medical and mental health care at the request of, and on behalf of, the Department of Corrections whether they are employees, persons under contract or persons compensated on a fee-for-service basis. (254.02)

Health Care Record: A confidential file consisting of clinical records pertaining to the medical, dental, and mental health services provided for inmates. The file has two major components:

a.        Medical record: documents, electronic files, forms, notes, reports, assessments, plans, diagnoses and dispositions in any form or from any source, whether reduced to print, microfiche, electromagnetic image, video or audio/visual tape recordings, that record medical care provided to a specific individual.

b.       Mental health record: documents, electronic files, forms, notes, reports, plans, diagnoses, assessments and dispositions in any form or from any source, whether reduced to print, microfiche, video or audio/video records, that pertain to all encounters that relate to the mental health of a specific person in custody.  (254.02)

Hearings Administrator: A designee of the Commissioner who acts as a review authority for offender/inmate grievances. (320.01)

Hearing Assistant: A person who assists an inmate in preparing and presenting their case.  It does not have to be a staff person, but cannot be an attorney. (410.01, 410.03)

Hearing Authority:  Each legal status has an authority that makes due process decisions concerning violations of conditions.  Generally these due process decisions are broken into two components; 1) the determination of guilt or innocence and 2) the disposition of the case.  The hearing authority for probation is the District Court, for SCS and parole, it is the Parole Board and for furlough, it is the Department of Corrections. (413.06)

Hearing Officer:  A person designated by the Commissioner of Corrections and assigned by the Superintendent/District Manager or designee to conduct hearings. (370) A person designated by the Commissioner of Corrections and assigned by the Superintendent or designee to conduct administrative due process hearings. (410.01, 410.03)

High Risk: Statutorily defined as a high degree of dangerousness that a sex offender poses to others. Dangerousness includes the probability of a sexual reoffense. (255.01, 371.05 - 11/07)

High Risk Groups:  AIDS is transmitted through intimate sexual contact, through exposure to infected blood or blood components, and through perinatal transmission from mother to neonate.  Sexually active male homosexuals and users of intravenous drugs run the greatest risk for AIDS. (351.01)

Hiring Certificate:  The list of eligible job applicants for a particular correctional facility. (122.03)

Hospital:  A facility for the treatment of medically and mentally ill persons, which is licensed by the State of Vermont to perform this service. (363)

Hospital Emergency Room:  The section of a hospital licensed to operate in the State of Vermont where medical and nursing services are available on demand.  Physicians working in emergency rooms in Vermont are permitted to certify someone as incapacitated and waive them to protective custody at a facility of the Vermont Department of Corrections. (306)

Hostage:  Any person who is held, restrained or prevented from flight (by threat or action), with the implicit or stated purpose of exacting concessions from a third party. (414.04)

Hostage Negotiation Section (HNS):  A division of the Vermont Department of Correction’s CERT team, which is responsible for conducting negotiations. (414.04)

Hostage Taker (HT):  Any person who is holding a hostage or is acting in concert with those doing so. (414.04)

Household Member:  Any person residing in the residence or proposed residence of an offender placed or about to be placed on PAF/CR/FR. (371.14)

Housing Coordinator: A Corrections’ staff person who administers all Department-funded offender housing functions, including approval of release money. (323.01 - 7/07)

HRD:  The Human Resource Development Unit. (101, 402.01)

HRD Regional Field Coordinators:  A HRD staff member assigned to oversee the Field Training of new employees, complies with this directive, and provides feedback and support to local FTO site coordinators. (106.06)

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