Brattleboro Community Justice Center

Brattleboro Reparative Panels

Reparative Panels are a form of community-sponsored probation that brings convicted offenders before a volunteer board of citizens as part of their sentencing process.

The panel works with offenders and their victims by
exploring the following:

Who has been harmed?
What are their needs?
What needs to happen in order to repair the harm
or begin to make things right?
What does the offender need to learn in order to
avoid re-offending?

Offenders will form a contract with the panel that has him/her addressing the above questions. That contract must be completed within 90 days.

Victims are contacted by the BCJC and are invited to be a part of the process either through direct participation or by some other means that meets the victim’s needs.

Reparative Panels meet monthly.
BCJC administers three panels that meet on the following schedule:

Third Tuesday 11:00am-1:00pm

Third Thursday 7:00pm – 9:00 pm

First Friday 3:00pm-5:00pm