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Juvenile Offender: Any person under the age of eighteen (18) who is convicted of a crime or offense, who is placed in the care, custody or supervision of the Vermont Department of Corrections or any person under the age 18 who has been charged with a violation and is awaiting trial. (08.01)

Journalist or Reporters:  A person who wants to visit the facility or an inmate in order to gain information to write, publish, or record a story. (415)

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Law Enforcement Officers:  A police officer or investigator who investigates criminal acts and enforces the law. (415)

Lead Agency:  An agency designated by the Vermont Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division to regionally provide and coordinate services of the Alcohol Services Act. (306)

Leave Approval: Requested leave by the officer that has been approved by the Superintendent or designee. (122.02)

Leave Replacement: Staff allocated to cover leave taken.  Temporary employees will be used when facilities do not have enough permanent positions for leave replacement. (122.02)

Listed Offense(s):  Criminal offenses described in 13 VSA, SS 5301 (7) characterized for the most part by violence towards persons, and those violent crimes that the Department of Corrections has determined that meet the rationale that established the listed offenses. (371.08, 371.09, 371.10, 371.11, 371.12, 502.01, 502.02)

Leave Requests: A request for leave of three periods of time, listed by priority to be approved. (122.02)

Leave Request Windows: A one-month window of time during which leave requests will be taken.  Approval will occur no later than two weeks after the window closes. (122.02)

LERT:  Local Emergency Response Team. (404.02-3/07, 414.01, 414.03, 414.04)

Leisure Education:  The process of providing opportunities for the acquisition of skills, knowledge, and attitudes related to leisure involvement.  By enhancing an offender’s attitudes concerning the value and importance of leisure, the DOC can help an individual explore and develop new interests, and expand quality of life experiences. (308)

Length of Contact:  The actual time taken in a direct or indirect contact with an offender or collateral contact.  This includes only the contact time and does not include waiting or transportation time. (371.17)

Less Lethal:  An extended range impact weapon utilizing kinetic energy munitions.  These munitions, when used properly are less likely to result in death or serious physical injury than force commonly known as “deadly.” (413.07)

Less Lethal Weapons:  A delivery device identified specifically for less lethal munitions. (413.07, 414.01)

Less than Lethal Kinetic Energy Weapons: Weapons that discharge kinetic energy, such as bean bags or OC (paint) ball munitions. (413.01)

Level 1 Certification:  Basic sentence computations, meritorious good time updates, and loss of good time updates. (371.18)

Level 2 Certification:  Concurrent sentences, restoration of good time, escape time updates, parole expiration dates, and parole revocations, consecutive sentences, and probation revocations. (371.18)

Level of Force: The type of force employed, amount of that type of force employed and the circumstances within which that force is employed. (413.01)

Level of Services Inventory- Revised (LSI-R):   (1) Structured assessment of an offender’s risk and needs, used to assist in treatment planning and assignment of varying levels of supervision. (371.08, 371.10, 371.11, 371.12) (2) A 54- item of measure of general recidivism risk which examines both static and dynamic risk factors.  Administration of the LSI-R involves review of file material and an interview with the offender which takes from 30-45 minutes.  The measure yields a total composite score which identifies the risk group (low, low-moderate, moderate-high, high) into which the offender falls and ten sub-scores reflecting the degree to which recidivism-related variables are present or nor present in a case.  This is a measure of general risk (i.e. any recidivism).  The LSI-R score predicts furlough/parole outcomes, success in correctional halfway houses, institutional misconduct, and recidivism.  The LSI-R is administered by trained casework staff at correctional facilities and field sites. (371.07)

Level of Services Inventory- Screening Version (LSI-SV):  An eight item screening measure of general recidivism derived from the full 54-item measure.  It measures criminal history, criminal attitudes, criminal associates, antisocial personality, employment, family and substance abuse.  While it is efficient and highly correlated with the longer LSI-R, it does not provide the degree of detail or case-planning components found in the longer version.  It is used at case intake to provide an initial assessment and case assignment function.  (371.07)

Liberty Interest: A term used in legal discussions concerning the degree to which an offender’s legal status protects certain civil rights of the individual. (413.06)

Life Endangering:  A situational occurrence when any person involved in the disturbance will lose his/her life by violence.  (414)

Limited Markets:  The market to which the sale of offender produced goods or services are limited by state statute, those being to the federal government, to any state or subdivision of the state, or to any nonprofit organization which is exempt from federal or state income taxation, subject to federal law, to the laws of the recipient state and to the rules of the department. (398)

Limited Risk Control: The practice of maintaining offenders at the least restrictive level of supervision consistent with offender risk and public safety. (125.01)

Local Education Agency/School:  The area of legal responsibility for the provision of educational services to legally entitled students. (389)

Local Procedure: Procedures applicable to a specific field office or facility necessary to carry out the administrative directive in that work site.(02)

Local Procedure (Plans):  These are detailed, written processes by which a facility brings to resolve a Class I or Class II disturbance and aids in the resolution of a Class III or IV Disturbance.  They are to be regarded as inter-related and incremental responses.  These procedures, at a minimum, should identify action plans, which identify, notify, isolate, contain, and resolve; staff; team; and post assignments; resources available; communications, and support services necessary to resolve a Disturbance.  While being detailed in nature, these procedures should be flexible to take into account that any key team member may not be available or may be a hostage and may (under stress) provide information as to plans and procedures. (414)

Local Training Coordinator:  A staff member who helps to facilitate training at an office or facility. (107.01)

Lodging:  When a person is brought to a correctional facility for the purpose of being incarcerated. (315.01)

Log: A permanent, hardbound volume with pre-numbered pages used to record events in a sequential order by day, shift, and time respectively. (403.02)

Long Term Medical Furlough: The transfer of an inmate who is diagnosed as suffering from a terminal or debilitating condition to a hospital, hospice, other licensed inpatient facility or other housing accommodation deemed suitable by the Commissioner or designee. Long term medical furlough includes from facility headcount to field. (373.02)

LSI- R (Level of Service Inventory-Revised): An objective, quantifiable instrument that provides a consistent and valid method of predicting risk to re-offend and a reliable means of measuring offender change over time through reassessment. It is a semi-structured interview supplemented with information from records or collateral sources. Results reflect risk and need in ten domains such as employment, family dynamics, etc., that inform the classification process. This assessment tool is used routinely by the Department in preparing a PSI. (342.01-4/07)

LSI-R Coordinating Group:  A designated group of managers and casework staff who meet quarterly, or as needed, to review the implementation and administration of the LSI-R and make policy-related recommendations to EMT concerning all facets of its use in the DOC.  This panel will be chaired by the clinical director. (371.07)