Escaped Murder's Privacy Rights In Vermont Trump Public Safety

A young man convicted of murdering his foster mother in the year 2000 with a single .22 pistol shot to the back of her head whilst grading school papers was furloughed (paroled to some of us) from prison last year. Last week he decided to escape and disappeared from his job during the middle of his work day. Police, the US Marshals and the public were alerted. Only one problem------the only available photo of him was a file photo taken at the time of the murder when he was 17, some thirteen years ago. What does he look like now? The Vermont Department of Corrections has the only recent photo of him AND THEY REFUSED TO RELEASE IT TO LAW ENFORCEMENT OR THE PUBLIC CITING THE CONVICTED FELON'S RIGHT TO PRIVACY!!!!!!! A state legislator who heads the legislative committee overseeing VT Corrections is demanding an explanation. Ya think the failure to produce a current photo of the convicted murderer might have compromised public safety? You bet! VT Corrections lives in a very special world........with a 92% recidivism rate by the end of the second year of release from prison.