Cause to be established in Sunday demise at Southern Point out Correctional Facility

Vermont Enterprise Journal The Vermont Office of Corrections is conducting internal administrative and medical assessments subsequent the death of an incarcerated specific on Sunday.

Ronald Roy, 71, of New Hampshire, was discovered unresponsive in the infirmary unit at Southern Condition Correctional Facility (SSCF) in Springfield mid-afternoon Sunday. Vermont DOC employees instantly referred to as for crisis clinical solutions and each DOC and health-related workers furnished existence-conserving measures. EMS arrived on site and pronounced Mr. Roy dead a shorter time later.

Mr. Roy was housed in the infirmary device at the time of dying.

Vermont DOC notified the two the Vermont Point out Law enforcement and the Defender Standard – Prisoners’ Rights Office.

The Vermont DOC Peer Aid Group is on web site at the facility this week to assist SSCF team.

Mr. Roy was lodged at SSCF in 2020 on federal expenses. Vermont DOC has also notified the United States Marshals Service of his dying.

8.29.2022. Waterbury, Vt. – Vermont Division of Corrections